[HN Gopher] Feather - open source icons ___________________________________________________________________ Feather - open source icons Author : vmoore Score : 236 points Date : 2022-10-16 14:44 UTC (8 hours ago) (HTM) web link (feathericons.com) (TXT) w3m dump (feathericons.com) | 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-16 23:00 UTC)