[HN Gopher] Show HN: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (B...
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Show HN: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful,
Rounded Style)
I've created a library of beautiful rounded icons and would like to
share it with the Hacker News community. Any suggestions are highly
appreciated. Features: - Beautifully rounded style - Over 3,800
icons - Editable stroke - Regularly adding new icons - Another
standard version (less rounded) coming soon - Easy installation via
npm or yarn
Author : masum_parvej
Score : 116 points
Date : 2024-05-08 18:17 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| jnsie wrote:
| These look great. I'm a bit ignorant on the topic - what makes an
| icon a 'Reach Icon'? Can these only be used in React apps? Am I
| missing something fundamental?
| masum_parvej wrote:
| Thanks for your interest!
|
| To clarify, these icons can be used in any interface.
|
| The term 'React Icons' refers to the specific React package
| we've created to make it easy for developers to integrate these
| icons into React and React Native applications.
|
| However, you can absolutely use these icons in other ways as
| well.
|
| They are available through a Figma plugin, WordPress, and
| directly in HTML-CSS via SVG.
|
| Compatible with any framework.
|
| I hope this clears up any confusion!
| jnsie wrote:
| It does. Thank you for the clarification!
| recursive wrote:
| The name "React" in the title implies that this library has a
| dependence on React. I almost wrote it off for my purposes
| before I realized that it really doesn't have anything to do
| with React.
| jeremyjh wrote:
| Yet there are other developers who are unaware the
| possibilities of non-react web development or how to use
| any resource that isn't installed with NPM. Tough call from
| a marketing perspective.
| bdcravens wrote:
| I would think the basics of HTML resources is a minimal
| bar for calling yourself a "developer" (at that stage
| you're still a student or an apprentice)
| mholubowski wrote:
| Hey, did you make these all by hand? I'm curious and impressed.
| masum_parvej wrote:
| Yes, drew them in Figma. You can see some of the drawing
| processes here: https://twitter.com/huge_icons
| smusamashah wrote:
| All 3800+ of them? That's a number of icons per day for one
| person.
| pimlottc wrote:
| What makes these icons particularly "huge"?
| masum_parvej wrote:
| Just a name, but also, we have a huge number of icons and we're
| adding more regularly. Currently, we have a total of over
| 27,000 icons, and more than 8,000 icons are under creation.
| We've made all stroke icons completely free.
| KTibow wrote:
| Shout out to Iconify, it consolidates many icon sets into
| compatible SVGs.
| masum_parvej wrote:
| Yes, Iconify is indeed a great resource. We really appreciate
| their work in consolidating various icon sets into compatible
| SVGs. It's incredibly helpful!
| bennettcohen wrote:
| Love hugeicons but have been directly downloading SVGs into my
| svelte project. Any package coming soon?
| masum_parvej wrote:
| Thank you for using Hugeicons and for your feedback. We are
| currently a small team focusing on developing the Icon font
| package. Once this is complete, we plan to expand our offerings
| to include support for Flutter, Vue, Angular, Vue-next, Solid,
| and Svelte.
| 8mobile wrote:
| Hi, thanks for your contribution. I really like the icons and I
| think I will use them in the next project.
| masum_parvej wrote:
| Hi, thank you so much for your kind words!
| ananya_paw wrote:
| icons are really premium looking. are they open-source too?
| carban wrote:
| The customization tool is the best for me, user friendly and
| feature rich. I will use it for my next projects.
| llamaimperative wrote:
| These look great! Thank you for sharing :)
| simple10 wrote:
| These are great! Nice work.
|
| I was a little confused on the pricing page[1]. Since the icons
| are free to download, is the main reason to pay to get access to
| Figma files?
|
| https://hugeicons.com/pricing
| masum_parvej wrote:
| Let me explain: There are 7 styles of icons, totaling 28,000+
| icons currently, with an additional 8,000+ icons nearly ready.
|
| Of these, 3,800 icons+ (4k apprx.) are completely free. They
| are free in the web app, free in the Figma file, free in the
| plugins,free on npm (almost everywhere).
|
| Hope this helps.
| Liquix wrote:
| It looks like the pro version has 27,000 icons (vs. the free
| 3,800) and bundles N requests for custom icons per month.
| Beautiful icon sets are a dime a dozen. But direct contact with
| the set's creator to design custom icons for your product/brand
| seems like a rare and attractive perk. I guess it depends on
| what exactly "request" means in practice
| causality0 wrote:
| These look very nice for marketing purposes but as I user I
| despise this trend of making the icons for everything look nearly
| identical to each other. It completely defeats the purpose of
| having an icon in the first place.
| mdwelsh wrote:
| These look great. The page says "Thousands of designers,
| developers, and content creators use HugeIcons Pro". Is this
| accurate? The project seems to have only about 493 downloads a
| week on NPM, and 194 GitHub stars. I would have expected a lot
| more given the number of people you claim are using the library.
|
| (Edit: For clarification, the NPM stats refer to the number of
| times the library was fetched from NPM's servers, not the number
| of times a developer incorporated it into a project. For popular
| NPM libraries, this number can be in the many millions of
| downloads per week. My confusion stems from the fact a library
| used by thousands of projects will have substantially higher
| numbers in NPM than what is seen here. It is of course possible
| that this number counts developers incorporating these icons not
| through the NPM library.)
| kachapopopow wrote:
| 493 a _week_ sounds like thousands over a month no?
| masum_parvej wrote:
| Hugeicons Pro has more than 50k regular users.
|
| - Figma plugin has 23k users (
| https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1209922740177393208/ )
|
| - 40k Per month web-app users ( https://hugeicons.com/icons )
| (you can check Similarweb)
|
| Also we have free available Figma file with more than 20k
| users, Wordpress plugin, IconJar users and more.
|
| Thanks for asking and happy to clarify this.
| olivergregory wrote:
| I don't get how I can download all (free) icons locally, to use
| in another framework than react. Anyone could bulk download
| without having to favorite each icon independently?
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