[HN Gopher] SVGmix is a massive collection of free SVG icons and...
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       SVGmix is a massive collection of free SVG icons and brand logos
        
       Author : tinhat
       Score  : 95 points
       Date   : 2023-07-16 14:22 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (svgmix.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (svgmix.com)
        
       | hdhehebxhxyyhs wrote:
       | https://brandfetch.com/ is another great resource for brand logos
       | they even have a Brand API to programmatically get access to this
       | data. See demo
       | 
       | https://brandfetch.com/developers/demo
        
       | throw0101a wrote:
       | Currently+ Slashdoted, so a mirror:
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       | * https://web.archive.org/web/20230716142310/https://svgmix.co...
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       | +                   Sun 16 Jul 2023 11:11:16 EDT         Sun 16
       | Jul 2023 15:11:16 UTC
        
       | jeanlucas wrote:
       | A good related source is Icones [1][2], an icon explorer that
       | even has a VS extension.
       | 
       | [1] https://icones.js.org/ [2] https://github.com/antfu/icones
        
       | winrid wrote:
       | Another worthy mention, SuperTinyIcons:
       | 
       | https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons
        
       | als0 wrote:
       | Are there any free icon sites with licenses that don't requite
       | attribution?
        
         | delusional wrote:
         | SVGmix seems to include different icon packs with different
         | licenses. Have you looked if they have any with a license that
         | fits your need?
         | 
         | For the corporate logo stuff, I don't think you can use any of
         | that at any point. It seems fishy to use trademarked logos of
         | private corporations without their explicit consent.
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | Why is that a bother? Just put the attributions in the part of
         | the site with all of your legalese nobody reads.
        
           | innocenat wrote:
           | I believe most SVG icon license require attribution to be on
           | all pages that the icon appear in, not just the legalese
           | page.
        
             | dylan604 wrote:
             | Ah, so are there any sites that don't require ridiculous
             | attribution? ;-)
        
               | elric wrote:
               | If you're going to be using work that someone else did,
               | free of charge, the least you can do is agree to their
               | attribution requirements. If not, you're more than free
               | to go and design your own icons. Or can you go and pay
               | someone to design icons.
               | 
               | Complaining about "ridiculous" licenses that people put
               | on their free stuff, seems pretty rude to me.
        
               | dylan604 wrote:
               | there's different applications of these icons, and if
               | you're not willing to recognize that, then don't come at
               | me about free use blah blah blah credit.
               | 
               | if i'm wanting to use icons like Fontawesome or some such
               | that are part of the UI that function as buttons or
               | whatnot and something much more than just there to be
               | pretty, expecting an attribution byline under everyone is
               | just never going to work in the sense of a UI. if you're
               | an icon maker, surely, this is understandable.
               | Fontawesome doesn't require the attribution per use or
               | per page[0]. So it is totally doable with out sounding
               | like some self righteous know it all on the interwebs.
               | Now, if you're using a giant icon as the focal piece of
               | the art on your page, then the layout does absolutely
               | allow for immediate attribution of the graphic just like
               | photos.
               | 
               | [0] https://fontawesome.com/license/free
        
               | elric wrote:
               | You're always free not to use them, and then no
               | attribution is required. I don't understand where this
               | apparent sense of entitlement is coming from? Do you not
               | agree that people are free to license their work however
               | they please? Do you think that you should just be able to
               | use anything anyone makes without paying the authors any
               | heed?
        
               | dylan604 wrote:
               | Please, go back and re-read this thread. I never said use
               | without attribution. Take a breath and step off your soap
               | box for just a minute. To recap, my original comment was
               | in support of a reasonable attribution. Then someone else
               | came out with an unreasonable attribution request on
               | every single use of an icon. This led me to jokingly
               | reiterating the original question I responded to with a
               | request for reasonable examples. Then you came at me like
               | I'm asking for free use without credit whatsoever. When
               | in fact, I actually provided an example of something I
               | think of a reasonable license. Not once, ever, have I
               | suggested use for free and fuck a license. You want this
               | argument so bad, you injected that into the conversation.
        
               | mixmastamyk wrote:
               | People are free to do as they like, including complain
               | about unrealistic licenses.
        
         | ComputerGuru wrote:
         | The Noun Project has a $10/yr membership that lets you skip
         | attribution (permanently, not just while you are a paying
         | member).
        
           | CoUHKT57BSe wrote:
           | Do you have a link or discount code or something for a
           | $10/year sub? Looking on their site a yearly sub is $40 not
           | 10.
        
         | latexr wrote:
         | https://iconmonstr.com/
        
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       | youssefabdelm wrote:
       | Does anyone know any good underrated educational resources for
       | more "specialized" icon design?
       | 
       | I have a big bone to pick with these types of sites. Everything
       | has developed this homogenized feel. Even with the slight
       | variations in every set of SVG icons on that website, they all
       | look the same kind of, and the idiosyncratic "fingerprint" so to
       | speak of a specific kind of set has been erased in place of this
       | constantly never-ending minimal style.
       | 
       | Don't get me wrong, these things are useful if you wanna get up
       | and running and don't care about design being optimal, but if you
       | want your website to have its own "character", more energy needs
       | to be invested.
        
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