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All these icon collections are great, but I always find missing stuff there, and I don't know how this can be fixed besides complaining (and I don't want to com

by pvinis 9y ago

All these icon collections are great, but I always find missing stuff there, and I don't know how this can be fixed besides complaining (and I don't want to complain when they give it for free). For example, this one looks really nice, but it only has 'battery' and 'battery-charging'. In an app I work on, I need battery with no charge, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, and charging. Then I think that this would be small to add, but again I don't want to complain. Then maybe someone will need a battery with a sliding charge, so they can represent as many charge percentages as the pixels allow. And then this becomes a whole other things, and not just an icon collection..

jannes 9y ago
This is the full SVG source code for the battery icon: <svg width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><rect x="1" y="6" width="18" height="12" rx="2" ry="2"></rect><line x1="23" y1="13" x2="23" y2="11"></line></svg> It shouldn't be too hard to add another rectangle with whatever width you want. Just open up the dev tools and play around with it.
- pvinis 9y ago
  Sure, I could make something that works. I could make a hacky icon for each. And that's what I did for my app. I could try to contribute, but it's not going to be in the style of the rest of the icons. That's the point of a collection. It's a collection that one or a team of people made. I can make a PR that they have to look at and fix and/or redesign. I could ask them to create it themselves. But in both of these scenarios, the designers of the collection need to do more work, for me, for free, which is not great for them.
  - akmiller 9y ago
    Then perhaps open source icons are not a good fit for you! If you have some requests/demands, and can't do the work yourself, then paying a premium to have that work done seems like the correct route.
    - Hungnguyen 9y ago
      Vietnamese
  - woodrowbarlow 9y ago
    i know this wasn't the point of your comment, but: overlaying/combining SVGs really isn't a hack.
usaphp 9y ago
> In an app I work on, I need battery with no charge, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, and charging. These icons are provided in svg format. You can open it in Sketch app, draw a rectangle to show Desiree battery level, the click on the path and click "export/save as SVG".
- jjuhl 9y ago
  And then contribute the new icons back.
- deleted 9y ago
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inostia 9y ago
You can't expect a free icon set to have everything you need. This might help you: https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=25%20battery https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=25%20battery

by pvinis 9y ago

jannes 9y ago

This is the full SVG source code for the battery icon: <svg width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><rect x="1" y="6" width="18" height="12" rx="2" ry="2"></rect><line x1="23" y1="13" x2="23" y2="11"></line></svg> It shouldn't be too hard to add another rectangle with whatever width you want. Just open up the dev tools and play around with it.

pvinis 9y ago
Sure, I could make something that works. I could make a hacky icon for each. And that's what I did for my app. I could try to contribute, but it's not going to be in the style of the rest of the icons. That's the point of a collection. It's a collection that one or a team of people made. I can make a PR that they have to look at and fix and/or redesign. I could ask them to create it themselves. But in both of these scenarios, the designers of the collection need to do more work, for me, for free, which is not great for them.
- akmiller 9y ago
  Then perhaps open source icons are not a good fit for you! If you have some requests/demands, and can't do the work yourself, then paying a premium to have that work done seems like the correct route.
  - Hungnguyen 9y ago
    Vietnamese
- woodrowbarlow 9y ago
  i know this wasn't the point of your comment, but: overlaying/combining SVGs really isn't a hack.

usaphp 9y ago

> In an app I work on, I need battery with no charge, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, and charging. These icons are provided in svg format. You can open it in Sketch app, draw a rectangle to show Desiree battery level, the click on the path and click "export/save as SVG".

jjuhl 9y ago
And then contribute the new icons back.
deleted 9y ago
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inostia 9y ago

You can't expect a free icon set to have everything you need. This might help you: https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=25%20battery https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=25%20battery