[HN Gopher] Feather - open source icons
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Feather - open source icons
Author : vmoore
Score : 236 points
Date : 2022-10-16 14:44 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| ImPleadThe5th wrote:
| I highly appreciate things like this. But honestly, it's so hard
| to tell the difference between all the different icon libraries.
| Would love to see an Html standard library for these.
| naillo wrote:
| This basically feels like a solved problem.
| throwaway290 wrote:
| I thought moving the size slider would switch to icon versions
| designed with less/more detail to accommodate extreme sizes, but
| this is cool and since it's OSS someone might make a PR for that
| at some point!
| KaoruAoiShiho wrote:
| What was that project that combined every single iconset together
| and let you use any icon from hundreds of thousands of choices?
| Simran-B wrote:
| Related but with a lot less icons: https://icomoon.io/app/
| h3mb3 wrote:
| React-specific: https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons/
| gervwyk wrote:
| This is also my favorite goto for icons. Also interesting to
| me how the repo is structured, by including a linked folder
| to the source repo, see packages/react-icons/src/icons ..
| does anyone know how to do this?
| GNOMES wrote:
| nerdfonts?
|
| https://www.nerdfonts.com/
| cdrini wrote:
| Iconify? I love this tool! https://iconify.design/
| Fileformat wrote:
| Shameless self promotion: IconSear.ch[1] - instant icon search of
| almost 100K icons[2] from over 100 sources[3] (including
| feather!), linked directly to the icon source. More source ideas
| welcome!
|
| [1] https://iconsear.ch/search.html
|
| [2] https://iconsear.ch/icons/index.html
|
| [3] https://iconsear.ch/sources/index.html
| smetj wrote:
| Nice!
| andyfleming wrote:
| This is great!
|
| I'd consider making the search experience more like
| https://www.flaticon.com/. The drop-shadow boxes are too
| distracting. Adding consistent spacing will help too.
|
| I love that it's easy to get to the source, but having a page
| in between would be nice to see other icons from the set and
| information about where the icon is from.
| Fileformat wrote:
| Rather than an interstitial page, I'm thinking of overlay
| buttons (like Gmail has for attachments) for viewing info/the
| rest of the set/etc.
|
| I like instant search better than suggestions/autocomplete.
| It also works with JavaScript disabled though not instant.
| s-xyz wrote:
| Maybe I am not getting it, but feather icons have been around for
| a while (I am a big fan). I am therefore surprised that nobody
| posted this link before. Or did they just release the website?
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _Feather: Open-source icons_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15089916 - Aug 2017 (140
| comments)
| swyx wrote:
| my list of icon resources here: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-
| joy/blob/master/README.md#ico...
| sgt wrote:
| I see the symbol for saving is still a floppy disk.
| marcosdumay wrote:
| And our "A" letter still comes from an stylized ox, even though
| I'm not aware of any modern language where the animal name
| starts with it.
|
| That's not reason to drop any of them.
| Minor49er wrote:
| What do you think about the icon for a new file ("file-plus")
| being a sheet of paper?
| TobTobXX wrote:
| Q: What do the floppy disk and Jesus have in common?
|
| A: They died to become the icon of saving.
| nnopepe wrote:
| badsectoracula wrote:
| At that point _not_ being a floppy disk would be confusing -
| when the Tango Icon Theme was used widely, it had some weird
| "arrow to a box" (i think it was supposed to be a hard disk) as
| the save symbol and despite using such programs for years it
| threw me off very often when trying to find and hit the save
| button in a toolbar. Actually it still does since some
| applications still use the icon set.
| CamperBob2 wrote:
| What should it be? Serious question.
| meltedcapacitor wrote:
| Nothing? Autosave + undo supercedes "save". The "save"
| operation needed to be explicit on 1980s computers because
| nursing the floppy controller was a stop the world operation
| -- a long solved problem.
| tjoff wrote:
| No thanks. I want writing to "disk" to be explicit.
|
| Automatically save a copy that you can recover from, sure,
| but let the user decide when and if to save it for real.
| MerelyMortal wrote:
| Or at the very least show a list of save points with
| user-defined points highlighted.
| badsectoracula wrote:
| Autosave is an awful idea, making modifications to existing
| files, creating new files "in memory" that i throw away
| (i.e. not saving them at all) and of course making many
| modifications that i decide later to save under a different
| name are things i do all the time with all sorts of
| programs.
|
| If i want something to be stored in permanent storage i
| explicitly request that with the Save or Save As
| functionality.
|
| That is not to say that an autosave functionality is always
| useless, it can be useful -e.g.- for recovering from
| program failures, but not as a replacement for the explicit
| Save/Save As functionality.
| jimjimjim wrote:
| How would you save to another location? How do you save
| something to a usb stick? How do you save as to a different
| format while keeping the original?
| MerelyMortal wrote:
| Maybe we should ask one of those AI image generators?
|
| (maybe an arrow into a folder, but then some new computer
| users don't even know what folders are because their systems
| don't show them to the users)
|
| I'm also not opposed to keeping it a floppy disk. It's okay
| to use outdated references for things. And it's funny to hear
| a kid say you have a 3d-printed save icon.
| CamperBob2 wrote:
| DALL-E 2 yields https://i.imgur.com/B9kCRnt.png for the
| prompt "a graphical icon used to represent saving a file".
|
| Not sure it's an improvement over the floppy disk. Other
| variations on the prompt tend to yield things like CF
| cards. Although I guess the file folder with the arrow
| isn't too bad. (For contemporary values of "Isn't too bad"
| equal to "Holy shit, this thing is starting to understand
| abstract concepts" a few months ago.)
| mickael-kerjean wrote:
| C-x C-s
| RedShift1 wrote:
| Perhaps we should work from a different angle, we have become
| so used to the word "save" that we don't think about calling
| it something else. How does somebody who has never heard the
| word "save" describe saving a file? Maybe think more in the
| direction of "remember" or "memorize"...
| shadowofneptune wrote:
| Could someone who has a basic understanding of English go
| even two days without hearing the words 'save' or 'lost?'
| It seems easy enough to understand.
| alxlaz wrote:
| What else would it be?
| duxup wrote:
| If it was anything else I would probably be confused.
| s1291 wrote:
| One can also use Inkscape Open Symbols [1].
|
| [1]: https://github.com/PanderMusubi/inkscape-open-symbols
| unsafecast wrote:
| They're surprisingly good. I've come to expect built-in icon
| sets, themes, etc to be terrible in just about every program.
| rnmp wrote:
| Glad to see it being featured here. Been a big fan since the
| beginning.
|
| Probably already mentioned before (lazy to scroll) but if you're
| building something and need icons don't just use one package.
|
| If you're building in React or a compatible JSX library use react
| icons (https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons/).
|
| It lets you pick and choose from many packs (Feather included)
| and if you're careful with your selections you can meet pretty
| much all needs in a cohesive way. Until you can afford an in
| house designer :P
| KineticLensman wrote:
| The Scissors icon shares a common fault with many other scissor
| symbols and emojis: the finger holes are too large for the blades
| to actually close (and thus cut). This is something that I can't
| now unsee, once it was pointed out to me.
| account-5 wrote:
| God damn it! Why'd you have to point this out!
| RedShift1 wrote:
| Thanks, now I can't unsee it either and will be on the lookout
| for it wherever I come across a scissors icon.
| sings wrote:
| Shameless plug.
|
| My set, Microns, has fewer icons but is good for starting new
| projects.
|
| https://www.s-ings.com/projects/microns-icon-font/cheat-shee...
|
| The icons are intentionally designed to not have too much
| personality. Less rounded and cutesy than Feather.
| nyanpasu64 wrote:
| I miss color icons, but the Tango-style icons look dated in
| modern apps, and unfortunately DPI scaling arguably smudges
| colored icons more than line-based icons (even if both are
| vectors).
| layer8 wrote:
| Yeah, I'm missing icon libraries that actually look good on
| lower-DPI screens. 10-15 years ago was peak good-looking icon.
| _benj wrote:
| I love these icons! Have used them in a few projects.
|
| A similar project I also enjoy using is https://heroicons.com/
| andrewgioia wrote:
| Lucide[1] is a very active fork of Feather and what I've been
| using for the past few years instead.
|
| Feather is great as are their design guidelines, but it needs way
| way more icons. Lucide picks up beautifully where it left off.
|
| [1] https://lucide.dev/
| 867-5309 wrote:
| I wonder why _signal-zero_ and _signal-low_ are the same icon
| azdle wrote:
| Looks like it's just an accident: https://github.com/lucide-
| icons/lucide/pull/428#issuecomment...
| 867-5309 wrote:
| beside the fact that an error like this actually made it
| into a release, should it really take more than six months
| for such a simple correction?
| junkieradio wrote:
| You can't really hold an open source project like this to
| such a high level of scrutiny, all development was likely
| done in people's spare time with no compensation.
| jlkuester7 wrote:
| You must be new here....
|
| But seriously, I 100% agree! No one is paying for these
| icons. Mistakes happen. The world is not ending if they
| do not get corrected immediately. We all have a ton of
| things we are working on and cannot always make our FLOSS
| side-projects our top priority.
|
| (Though, I will readily admit that this raises some
| provocative questions about how much "mission critical"
| projects should rely on open source projects which they
| have no contract/SLA/affiliation with...)
| marcosdumay wrote:
| And signal-high is lower than signal.
|
| I guess some discretion is required before using any of those
| icon fonts. That's really not a point against it.
|
| Anyway, my favorite feature is that the disability guy is in
| a rush.
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| > anyway my favorite feature is that the disability guy is
| in a rush
|
| That's actually a thing now:
| https://blog.logomyway.com/new-handicapped-logo-and-the-
| hist...
| marcosdumay wrote:
| That's interesting.
|
| For me the rushing icon does look better. But I wonder
| why they didn't make the icon on a more normal position,
| with the body and arms closer to the resting position. We
| don't make signage with people running except when we
| actually want to say that they are going fast; the same
| should apply here.
| thih9 wrote:
| > I wonder why they didn't make the icon on a more normal
| position, with the body and arms closer to the resting
| position.
|
| The article linked by grandparent says: "the new design
| pictures a handicapped individual with their head tilted
| forward, indicating their mobility and that they are in
| control of where they are going. The new design also
| pictures the individual with their arms back, once again
| indicating that they are dynamic and in control of their
| own mobility."
| angelmm wrote:
| Didn't know about Lucide! Thanks for sharing
| mblode wrote:
| I contributed the RSS icon[1] to Feather a few years ago. The
| circle shape in the RSS icon is visually denser and deviates from
| all other shapes in the icon set. I apologize for breaking the
| constraints but in my defense, it looks much nicer this way
|
| [1] https://feathericons.com/?query=rss
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