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Show HN: Iconduck - 100k open source icons, downloadable and
searchable
Author : onassar
Score : 339 points
Date : 2021-01-22 16:16 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| onassar wrote:
| Hi all; I designed a site called Iconduck (https://iconduck.com).
|
| There are so many dope open source icon sets out there. I brought
| a bunch of them (132 so far) under one roof. I made them
| searchable (using typesense.org), and list out the license
| details and link back to the site or GitHub repo.
|
| I'm not much of a designer, and it's just a first stab at the
| concept. It's been done, but I wanted to also build it API-first,
| since I know it would be useful to be able to search through them
| all for developers.
|
| I'm always on the lookout for new icon libraries to include, and
| plan on making it easier to learn more about the designers
| themselves. If you have any ideas on icon sets or libraries to
| include please let me know in the comments :)
| rayrag wrote:
| Could you list all those 132 icon sets somewhere -
| iconduck.com/sets returns 404 and in iconduck.com/licenses you
| are showing only 1-2 set for each license.
| onassar wrote:
| Yep I had those listed, but ran into some performance issues.
| Will get that worked out (you guessed the right path, btw ;)
|
| If you want, you can join the MailChimp so that I can let you
| know when that page is back up: https://iconduck.us7.list-
| manage.com/subscribe?u=66c12f50e51...
| superasn wrote:
| Website looks great and returns icons for all my searches.
|
| I hope I never have to use flaticon again after this. Their
| database of icons is amazing but website is so annoying.
| onassar wrote:
| Great to hear. I actually wanted to mention that Typesense
| very-generously is powering our search
| (https://typesense.org). They've been soooo easy to work
| with, so def consider them for any search projects.
|
| Regarding flaticon: what about the site do you find annoying?
| This way I know what to avoid ;)
| chrisBob wrote:
| One feature I like on flaticon that you are missing is the
| option to download a png at a certain size. SVG is great,
| but if I want something quick to drop into an iOS app,
| grabbing the png at 64 pixels wide is very convenient.
| onassar wrote:
| I'm working on that right now. Hoping to have it up later
| tonight ;)
| amelius wrote:
| Check out: https://thenounproject.com/
|
| This site has a similar goal, with a huge amount of icons
| already available, free to download.
| onassar wrote:
| Yep I know them very well! They're amazing! I wanted to build
| something that wasn't so much a product, but more so about
| the open source community and all the icons. They're a
| fantastic company and product, though!
| amelius wrote:
| I just checked them again, and I must say that I'm a bit
| disappointed in how they seem to have become more
| commercially oriented over the years.
| onassar wrote:
| Yeh it's tricky. They have some pretty amazing icons and
| services, and probably one of the most reliable APIs I've
| worked with. And so, that costs $. It is a bummer, but
| there's always that trade off I suppose.
|
| Hoping Iconduck can fill a bit of a void when it comes to
| open source contributions. I'll be very consistent with
| it, adding new icons every week, improving the searching,
| and the design.
| amelius wrote:
| Can't you (legally) pull all the Create Commons-licensed
| icons from their website? Have you tried contacting the
| original creators?
| onassar wrote:
| Do you mean from Noun Project? I wouldn't do that (for a
| couple reasons). The main one, is that I want to always
| be able to link back directly to the creator's repo and
| license. It gets a bit meta when people start collecting
| icons from other 3rd party sites. As for whether it's
| allowed, I think it depends on the specific license. For
| example, some licenses may not allow for redistribution
| generally, but then may grant a special license to a
| provider (for example, like Noun Project). So then, you
| may find yourself violating a license that you didn't
| even know about.
|
| So the rule is, I'll only include icons that have
| licenses that specifically allow redistribution and
| attribution, and I'll almost always link back to the
| repo. The exception is some sets aren't hosted through
| GitHub or GitLab, so I'll link back to their respective
| website.
| onassar wrote:
| (see below; didn't reply to the right message)
| slim wrote:
| I was surprised the site did not have an icon, so I searched
| for duck and found the duckduckgo icon. are you sure it's
| opensource ?
| onassar wrote:
| Yep; those icons can be used freely, however Trademarks
| apply. Generally, that means you can use it (for example,
| link to Duck Duck Go), but you probably couldn't sell it on
| t-shirts
| mrkwse wrote:
| The duckduckgo icons are labelled as such. Plenty of icon
| sets will have recognisable brand assets for the likes of
| social media platforms and so on, which will allow use
| according to certain guidelines.
|
| Their inclusion probably isn't an issue in itself, but the
| blanket guidance in the copy above the result will be.
|
| > The icons below can be used for Personal & Commercial
| purposes. They can be used on your website, branding and
| designs.
|
| Obviously assets relating to existing brands will never be
| permitted for use in the branding of an unaffiliated party.
| onassar may want to update the guidelines to note such
| exclusions.
| onassar wrote:
| Thanks for the notes mrkwse. I try to show copy like the
| following when trademarks show up:
|
| > Naturally, trademarks apply to any brand icons or logos
| above. That means that you can use them in practice (for
| example, linking to the respective service), but that the
| company likely has limitations on how else they can be
| used.
|
| I need to do some work to communicate that better :)
| sytelus wrote:
| Super important: your website title should include search
| terms! It currently just says "Iconduck". It should be
| something like "Iconduck - free open source icons, images and
| cliparts"
| onassar wrote:
| Yep! Will get that data updated soon. Very much an MVP ;)
| sanketdasgupta wrote:
| Will you be open sourcing the site itself?
| onassar wrote:
| Hoping on it. I'm not as familiar with modern approaches to
| open sourcing the whole platform (I'm a bit of a dinosaur
| when it comes to development), but in the short term, I'll be
| open sourcing a ton of data for all the different icon sets,
| as well as little scripts and plugins I built for Iconduck.
| spatley wrote:
| Great site, would love to see advanced search, especially to
| search within a specific icon set. Often I am building a
| graphic and want consistency across images, so finding an icon
| I like and then taking all other images I use from the same set
| would be super useful.
| onassar wrote:
| Yep! I already have that functionality done, I just haven't
| gotten around to building a nice UI/UX for that. On it,
| though.
| t_smith wrote:
| Great job on the launch - I'm always trying to grab new icon
| sets. I'd love to be able to re-color icons (e.g. black -->
| white) and group them for batch downloads.
| onassar wrote:
| Yep the recoloring should be available pretty soon, as well
| as batch downloads :)
| breck wrote:
| Love it! Search is a little slow for me (instant search would
| be great!) but other than that, awesome!
|
| Especially for a "first stab!"
| onassar wrote:
| Thanks! The search is powered by Typesense
| (https://typesense.org), but there's a good chance I'm not
| running the queries properly. Will look into that, and hope
| to add instant search soon.
| johns wrote:
| In the Windows 3.1 era I compiled different icons I could find
| into packs that I sold as shareware, taking $10 orders via checks
| in the mail and sending out 3.5" floppies in return. This is much
| better.
| onassar wrote:
| Hahaha oh boy: I may have been one of your customers. I had
| literally hundreds of folders of icons that I also wanted to
| keep offline incase the site went down. It was such a pain
| managing them.
| ChickeNES wrote:
| You might get a kick out of this Twitter bot then:
| https://twitter.com/win_icons
| onassar wrote:
| Haha what I like about those icons is they're actually pretty
| effective at grabbing attention. That retro/throwback thing.
| Thanks for the link. Now I gotta find out if they're open
| source ;)
| wmab wrote:
| This is great, nice work! Who is building the Figma plugin?! :)
| onassar wrote:
| Haha that's on the list! Any others you recommend?
| Fileformat wrote:
| Shameless plug for IconSearch [1], my similar site focused on SVG
| icons on Github/Gitlab. You can see my list of icon sources [2],
| and website source is available [3].
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| [1] https://iconsear.ch/
|
| [2] https://iconsear.ch/sources/index.html
|
| [3] https://github.com/VectorLogoZone/logosearch
| [deleted]
| atum47 wrote:
| lovely. thanks for sharing
| onassar wrote:
| Totally. Let me know if you have any feedback or ideas :)
| swyx wrote:
| here's my icon cheatsheet with a bunch of similar projects if it
| helps anyone solve their icon problems https://github.com/sw-
| yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#gen...
|
| added iconduck now!
| onassar wrote:
| Amazing thanks! Will be adding a few hundred each week (at
| minimum), so if you want you can mark that it's continually
| being updated :)
| majora2007 wrote:
| Thanks for this, great resource. Perfect for one of my in-
| development projects.
| pradeepb30 wrote:
| this is fantastic. Seems like a great resource.
| onassar wrote:
| Thanks! If you know of any other open source icons let me know
| :)
| genmud wrote:
| Can you add a Copy SVG button to them? HeroIcons [1] has this and
| I didn't know what I was missing until I started using it. I can
| basically just copy and paste directly into html pages rather
| than download the icon and either view the xml or have to do an
| img tag.
|
| Sure, if there is an icon that is used all the time, I will save
| it, but its really nice for prototyping.
|
| [1] HeroIcons: https://heroicons.com/
| onassar wrote:
| Yep. I actually ran into that while using Iconduck to find a
| link & GitHub icon haha. I had to download it, then view
| source, etc. I need to figure out an updated preview modal UI
| to accommodate that and PNG downloading, but it should be very
| doable in the next few days.
| aigoochamna wrote:
| Awesome-- could you provide a download link for the entire icon
| set? I'd prefer to have a local copy and find as-needed.
| onassar wrote:
| Yep that's on my todo for the next major release. Also hoping
| to let people group together multiple icon sets and download
| them all at once.
| tomcam wrote:
| Maybe charge for the download all feature?
| onassar wrote:
| Possibly, yeh.
|
| Tbh, there's a part of me that really doesn't want to try
| and productize it. I really love the idea of building an
| icon service that pulls in as many developers/designers as
| possible. OS has been a huge part of my career, and being
| able to give back can feel pretty fulfilling on those down-
| days.
| aasasd wrote:
| By now I'm gonna need a site listing icon collection sites.
| onassar wrote:
| Hahahahaha
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