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Ikonate – fully customisable and accessible vector icons
- dlbucci 7y agoReally cool! I kinda wish I had thought of it :) Any thoughts to adding further parameterization to icons? Like altering the length of the handle of the magnifying glass or something?
- docuru 7y agoHey, I share the project but I'm not the author, I just think it's pretty cool too
- mkl 7y ago"Do not resell or redistribute the icons, even for free." But they gave them the MIT License, which explicitly allows those things...
- stephenr 7y agoThis is just bizarre. Picking “MIT” because it sounds cool? I cannot understand how the authors think this is valid.
- onion2k 7y agoThe author actually picked the Apache license but changed it to MIT a year ago[1]. I imagine the author is trying to do open source well by using a license but doesn't fully understand the impact it has on the project. That's fair enough, and very common when people are new to open source. [1] https://github.com/mikolajdobrucki/ikonate/commit/5993f43ce625486e5f5a4db382da14c9e214b08f https://github.com/mikolajdobrucki/ikonate/commit/5993f43ce6...
- giornogiovanna 7y agoYeah, I think they'd be better served by something like `CC BY-ND 4.0`.
- bjelkeman-again 7y agoThanks to the person who added this as an issue on the repo. I was going to do it, but it was already done.
- mikolajdobrucki 7y agoYou're right, this didn't make any sense. I updated the README accordingly. Sorry for the confusion!
- ivanhoe 7y agoYou also have a little typo in README, under License: "Attribution IN much appreciated", instead of IS
- mikolajdobrucki 7y agoThanks a lot, next this will fix this one too!
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- HenryBemis 7y agoGreat work, and I will probably be using your icons on my app. Is there a Paypal 'donate' button (that I cannot find)?
- akadeb 7y agoSeems to have been updated: https://github.com/mikolajdobrucki/ikonate/commit/e34fa97dd8295f538259f809632bdb74b2436250 https://github.com/mikolajdobrucki/ikonate/commit/e34fa97dd8...
- tribby 7y ago> Ikonate is the very first icon set of this kind designed to be fully accessible* > * Ikonate is NOT accessible out of the box and will never be. We've done our best to follow the best accessibility practices while building this software, but it's your role to adjust it and make it truly accessible inside your project. these are incompatible statements. the author should just not call it accessible. also -- why "will never be"? there are ways to make it more accessible, if not perfect. one idea: turn the icons into a truetype GX variable font with a weight axis that increases as viewport size decreases using media queries. that would increase out of the box legibility considerably.
- Nadya 7y agoI handle ADA issues at work and deal with updating sites to adhere to WCAG 2.0. So perhaps I can offer my $0.02 and clear this up. It is actually impossible for anything to be accessible out-of-the-box, but they have been designed to be accessible and have sane defaults. Those statements do not contradict one another. For example, if you use a magnifying glass icon to mean "zoom" but their default title text for a magnifying glass is "search" then it is not out-of-the-box accessible even though it was designed to be fully accessible. They even mention this scenario (generically, not specifically) in their disclaimer. >E.g. all the titles and descriptions given to the icons should be treated as placeholders and changed in implementation depending on an actual role of each icon. In many cases, you may not need them altogether Having the placeholders there is questionably good - it would be better to have the attributes there but blank in my opinion. It will do more harm than good being wrong than being blank, but that's a difference in preference for implementation.
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- mikolajdobrucki 7y agoYou're right that placeholder may do more harm than good and it's questionable if it makes any sense. Still considered it a better option though at that point
- docuru 7y agoThanks for all the feedback, I tweeted the author about HN link, and someone has created a thread on GitHub. Hopefully, it will help him clear things up about the license. I believe it is not his intention to confuse us. Anyway, it is a cool tool and big thumbs up for the author!
- mikolajdobrucki 7y agoThanks a lot for the heads up! It's fixed, I already updated the README. Sorry for the confusion caused.
- jlg23 7y agoI only checked a few raw icons and I am impressed: They are fully stripped of superfluous markup introduced by SVG editors; that was something which I had to implement over and over again for customers' build pipelines. Also, the possibility to download a custom styled set is great: With all other icon sets I ended up either modifying them myself in a text editor or received a bunch of modified files from the graphics person in the project - but bloated with markup I needed to strip afterwards (see first point).
- hgasimov 7y agoOh, wow. Thanks a lot to the owner of this web site.
- hgasimov 7y agoObviously very nice looking icons. It would be even better to be able to download them as font. Then one can customise the icons later on his/her own website using CSS (text-color, background-colour, font-size, etc).
- billfruit 7y agoI can't find a link to it, but I remember reading a discussion, that if you want icons/images for fixes known sizes and resolutions, it is better to have rasters than vectors: I think, mostly to do with scaling of line weights/widths, vector scaling of these often results in ungainly images while a raster of a given native resolution looks clearer/better more proportionate.
- sjwright 7y agoTo the extent that might have ever been true, it would have been because of the limitations of very low resolution displays, or to work around limitations in the vector rasterizer. In any modern context, a vector is always preferable as it will generate the best output for an unlimited number of sizes, resolutions and contexts.
- billfruit 7y agoThe question may have been the scaling of line widths in a linear fashion while using vector images, which isn't that pleasing to the eye, compared to a hand crafted raster with more eye pleasing line width for a give size/resolution. May for aesthetic reasons line widths may require to be scaling in a nonlinear way? Scaled vectors will have mathematically correct line widths, but to a human perception the line may appear to thick/thin for the image size, than which a raster artist would have used if they were creating a native raster of that size.
- wodenokoto 7y agoKinda related: It seems clipart died with Google image search and the only alternatives I can find are things like the noun project[1] or fontawesome[2] both of which require a subscription, rather than a purchase, and neither really fills that clip art use-case. I'd love to purchase a clipart set like in the old 90's days of power point. [1] https://thenounproject.com/accounts/pricing/ https://thenounproject.com/accounts/pricing/ [2] https://fontawesome.com/pro https://fontawesome.com/pro
- Ibethewalrus 7y agoImages: istockphoto Adobe stock Icon sets: Icomoon Streamline icons Iconfinder Icons8
- sabizmil 7y agoThere's also https://www.flaticon.com https://www.flaticon.com
- baxtr 7y agoI played around with it and have to say that this is just great. The only option that I did not understand since it didn't change anything was the "style" button. What is that for?
- illuminati1911 7y agoRounding (or not) the edges/corners of the objects within the icon.
- Elect2 7y agooff-topic question: what library the site is using for these icons: https://imgur.com/a/GVVi3TQ https://imgur.com/a/GVVi3TQ , I really like 3d icons.
- highesttide 7y agoThose look like standard OS font emoji
- tornadon 7y agoMore specifically the ones in that screenshot look like the versions you’d find on iOS/macOS. Just thought I’d mention it in case someone was viewing it with say an Android device it would look different [1]. [1] https://emojipedia.org/hammer-and-pick/ https://emojipedia.org/hammer-and-pick/
- 8lall0 7y agoNice job! The spritesheet is the best!
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- shemeroni 7y agoPretty cool. Will use it in my projects for sure. Thanks mikolajdobrucki :)
- pzo 7y agoNice collection. Would be nice to easily create icon with just any text similar to already included HDR icon to accommodate e.g. ISO, WB, I/O, HD etc
- arusahni 7y agoThere's a certain irony in having the link to the accessibility disclaimer be so hard to target.
- kowdermeister 7y agoThis is pretty neat, cool name, it goes to my loved bookmarks :) One thing though I don't get is the 0 border width setting. Is that useful somehow?
- Hendrikto 7y agoAfaik, its a workaround for IE.
- aasasd 7y agoNote that there's a vaguely popular site named ‘icons8’ on about the same topic, so some confusion might ensue in the future.
- HenryBemis 7y agoHeh, I wonder if Mikolaj will respond to this comment. I don't think it's a coincidence. Some spill-off traffic never hurts. Although the icon8 owner may frown upon this.
- mezod 7y agowhat would be the most reasonable way to "fill" these icons?