[HN Gopher] Icones
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Icones
Author : tambourine_man
Score : 275 points
Date : 2025-04-27 00:30 UTC (22 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (icones.js.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (icones.js.org)
| kreelman wrote:
| These look great. Thanks for sharing.
| jerrygoyal wrote:
| my go to source for the last 2 years
| grimpy wrote:
| This is a nice collection.
|
| If you are making software, I implore you to do a quick and
| simple test if you plan on using icons: show them to some users
| and ask if they would know what they mean. There is a significant
| chance the icons are meaningless. Yes, context helps, yes, merely
| communicating difference helps, but, for the most part, nobody
| knows what any of these things mean.
| fnordsensei wrote:
| Relying on icons alone is never entirely without risk, no
| matter how conventional the icon. if you Value accessibility
| don't substitute text for imagery. Use imagery to provide a
| visual anchor for text.
| flashblaze wrote:
| Kind of in the similar vein: https://iconify.design/
| FireInsight wrote:
| This is actually the same collection of icons, just a different
| interface.
| simultsop wrote:
| It is a re-presentation of the same collection. These are
| marvels of collaboration.
| gaoryrt wrote:
| I think this one's the same with https://icones.netlify.app/
| mgiampapa wrote:
| They are both running the same software,
| https://github.com/antfu-collective/icones
| beeburrt wrote:
| Bookmarking this. Thanks for sharing.
|
| Reminds me of this showcase of fonts:
|
| https://www.programmingfonts.org/
| simultsop wrote:
| Anthony Fu (https://antfu.me/projects).
|
| Should to be known widely.
|
| The guy is a living legend.
| entropie wrote:
| Holy, this guy (?) is like the Stephen King of coding.
| dimava wrote:
| His projects are very good
|
| From the ecosystem-independent ones I use and highly recommend
|
| - `vscode-file-nesting-config` for decluttering your project
| folder
|
| - `ni` to not care which of npm alternative project uses
|
| - `eslint config` that has fine defaults for basically every
| framework (do note that it uses his eslint-style rather then
| prettier by default), which has TS JSDoc and autocompletion for
| rules and hides fixable rules in VSCode by default
|
| - `taze` to check deps for updates. May be less good then pm-
| specific ones but works for every pm.
|
| - `unocss` which is Tailwind clone you can actually understand
| - it works on regexes. Or can't because it _allows_ to set tw
| classes in attributes and group them in weird ways.
|
| - Vitesse theme is fine
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| I've seen only the JavaScript community where people make
| thousands of different libraries. This goes to show that how
| shallow each of these libraries are. In other languages like
| C++ or Rust, usually people maintain a few libraries at max.
| Not to say Anthony is not a smart individual.
| simultsop wrote:
| there are underlying differences between C++, Rust, JS. The
| aim of libraries are re-usability. To call a small library
| shallow, its your choice. If you want to drag a helpers
| folder with you anywhere its your choice. JS does not have
| the fate to have language updates as C, Rust. Code lives in
| many envoirements and is in many cases polyfilled/transpiled.
|
| You are welcome to shape your point of view in this free
| world.
|
| Checkout slidevjs, that may also look shallow to you. The
| eco-system is very open. It will never be as C++ or Rust. I
| believe everyone is happy where they are.
| dvh wrote:
| I have tango icon theme burned into my retinas
| grishka wrote:
| Note: this is unrelated to the Nintendo Entertainment System.
| It's just a collection of open-source vector icon sets.
| grishka wrote:
| (the title was originally stylized as "IcoNES")
| maelito wrote:
| Curious why the french word ? Is the author francophone ?
| franky47 wrote:
| Considering Anthony Fu is behind it, it aligns nicely with the
| Vue ecosystem naming (Vite, Vitesse, Histoire etc)
| io84 wrote:
| Great resource.
|
| Has anyone come across a semantic search to navigate these icon
| libraries? I want to be able to search for "Industry" and get
| icons returned that show factory, cogs etc. I've been using
| https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons but the same problem
| there, you search for a string and it just greps across the
| official icon name. If you don't know the name you're not going
| to find it.
| gitroom wrote:
| awesome, i've totally run into the search problem too - always
| annoys me when the icon names barely match what i need. you ever
| wonder if icons could just fade out someday and well just rely on
| smarter search instead?
| stevage wrote:
| The capitalisation in the HN item is wrong, it should just be
| "Icones". It's just the French word for icons, nothing fancy.
| NBJack wrote:
| I honestly thought it was a new emulator for the Nintendo
| Entertainment System.
| redbell wrote:
| Excellent work, Love it, bookmark it and considered it for future
| use!
|
| The HN title is, however, a bit confusing/misleading, especially
| at the end with 'NES' as it has a special meaning/feeling when
| read in the context of HN. At first, I though this was a project
| showing a remake of some icons from the Nintendo Entertainment
| System. Also, the word _Icone_ (with 'e' at the end and _accent
| circonflexe_ on letter 'o') is the French translation of _icon_.
| mauricioc wrote:
| As you point out, 'icones' is French for 'icons'; the name is
| probably related to the fact that the site is built using Vite.
| Was NES capitalized in the title earlier?
| redbell wrote:
| Yes, the original title was something like "icoNES" and I got
| downvoted to death!
| behnamoh wrote:
| Often times, I don't find all the icons I need in one icon
| package. I wish there was a way to find icons of various sources
| (and thus, various styles) and make them more consistent to be
| used in a program.
| nielsbot wrote:
| If you're looking for icons http://thenounproject.com (no
| affiliation) has a huge collection.
| jfengel wrote:
| What's with the hat on the o?
|
| In French it's used to mark where an o was followed by an s in
| Latin, but that's not the case here. Icon comes from Greek word
| that never had an S.
|
| Wiktionary reports an Esperanto icon, which means "male".
|
| Perhaps this means something in some other language? Or is it a
| metal umlaut?
| Nesco wrote:
| It's the French spelling. Saying it's only to indicate the
| disappearance of an "s" is reductive
| mbrubeck wrote:
| In words like _icone_ in French, o is typically used where the
| original Greek uses o (omega).
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumflex_in_French#Indicatio...
| amiga386 wrote:
| > In French it's used to mark where an o was followed by an s
| in Latin
|
| I love this.
|
| pate = paste
|
| foret = forest
|
| fete = fest
|
| ile = isle
|
| hate = haste
| steren wrote:
| Icones is just how to write icones in French.
| figomore wrote:
| ^ is used in Portuguese too.
| Telemakhos wrote:
| This is probably a bizarre question, but how does an icon artist
| go about deciding which icons to make? For example, almost every
| set seems to include at least one airplane, so airplanes seem to
| be something icon artists expect will be useful... but there are
| also bathtubs in some sets, which seems odd. Are these
| collections the results of specific projects, or do they
| anticipate what designers might need?
| croisillon wrote:
| great question, it looks like the beginning of a long read by
| the New Yorker ;)
| hexo wrote:
| What is the license for this, please?
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