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3K free SVG icons for popular brands
- phkahler 2y agoSeems like a lot of trademark infringement suits about to come their way. Am I mistaken or is there no way this viable? In addition, nobody has any legal right to put others trademarks (use these) on anything without the trademark owners permission. So even if the site and distribution is somehow OK, nobody can really use them anyway. Right?
- benatkin 2y agoThese and others have been online for a while, so I doubt it. There's more here, under the Brands / Social category: https://icones.js.org/ https://icones.js.org/ Yes, there are ways someone could use them that would not only run afoul of the trademark, but have trademark holders come after them. However, that doesn't make this useless, because there are proper and gray-area uses of these as well.
- anticorporate 2y agoThey probably each carry their own licensing and terms of use. I'd suspect there's a good number where reuse in some situations would be permitted, and in others would not. But every single one is going to be different, and just making assumptions is a quick way to blindly assume enormous legal liability.
- hobofan 2y agoThat's why SimpleIcons contains metadata about that, so if you are worried about that, you can just exclude any icons that have explicit licensing information attached.
- anticorporate 2y agoIf I were going to use these in my product, I would only do it the other way around. If there's no explicit license, I'm not touching someone else's trademark.
- aniviacat 2y agoI assume most brands are happy to see their icons being used/shared on as many platforms as possible. It's just free advertisment. If someone uses them in a context that's actually problematic for the brand, the brand can still sue them then. But that won't be the common case.
- ashu1461 2y agoYou can usually use the assets which are available on the official website, example for meta it is https://about.meta.com/brand/resources/facebook/logo/ https://about.meta.com/brand/resources/facebook/logo/. If you see the official logo it has different colors than the one provided in the website, so you can't that for production use cases.
- diggan 2y agoFont Awesome been available since 2013 at least, featuring brand icons https://web.archive.org/web/20130608045113/http://fontawesome.io/icons#brand https://web.archive.org/web/20130608045113/http://fontawesom... Seems fine
- duxup 2y agoI always assumed Font Awesome had some business agreement with those orgs eventually as font awesome did charge for some of their icons IIRC. Having said that, I'm not sure even that is legally necessary.
- strogonoff 2y agoI imagine avoiding IP legal issues with things like icons could be less about signing agreements with all involved companies and more about having a team that can respond professionally to an inquiry. Businesses may often not really understand what’s going on and default to being worried about third-party use of their trademarks that they normally must defend. Perhaps they don’t need to worry in this case, where it may actually provide a bit of free advertisement, but if there’s no one on the other side then it wouldn’t help the case. IANAL
- vultour 2y agoIt has existed for years and they actively remove icons when they get a takedown request. I'm sure most companies other than Oracle are happy to be there.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoSupplying the assets is not a problem. Most stock art orgs have brands. I suspect that they can get into "gray areas," if they charge for it. Using them is the problematic part.
- duxup 2y agoI'm not sure if simply offering a brand's logo would be trademark infringement. Years ago someone contacted me at the company I worked for claiming in some sorta pseudo legal language that we couldn't have one of our competitor's logos on our website. We had it on a promotional page comparing features across similar products. Turns out we can do that in the US.
- tialaramex 2y agoYou're mostly fine unless you are confusing consumers. The purpose of these marks is exactly to avoid that, so you're going to get into a lot of trouble if you use the marks to mislead people in any way. Take the Air China logo - if a not-so-bright reader might think you are Air China, you're using this all wrong. But if you use an Air China logo to signify the routes actually flown by Air China on a free world map of international flights on your web site, well, yeah, that's Air China, nobody is misled, even a moron knows the little logos on your map of the world aren't actually jet aeroplanes.
- audiodude 2y agoIt's not trademark infringement to copy or display a logo. Trademark infringement happens when you confuse customers by using a logo or phrase and make them think that you're selling the actual product or that you're somehow endorsed by the original company.
- nottorp 2y agoIsn't it also copyright infringement, and thus punishable by death in some enlightened jurisdictions [1], or at least by thousands in damages per infringement? How many infringements do you generate by just loading the front page? [1] Those most exposed to Hollywood lobbying.
- reynard_le_faux 2y agoDon’t tell every SaaS company ever. (Who I doubt all have robust legal processes for including logos on their homepages)
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoDoesn't have Grindr, disappointing.
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- PeterNoble 2y agoWe don't aim to be a definitive collection of all the world's brands. Rather, we only add brands that are specifically requested or contributed by our community (and, occasionally, on a whim by our maintainers!) and, so far, nobody has requested this one. If you would like to see the Grindr icon then please do feel free to open an issue or pull request. We would ask, though, that you attempt to contact them to seek permission first as their terms of service state: "The names and logos associated with the Grindr Services are the property of Grindr. No use of these marks is permitted except through the prior written authorization and permission of Grindr. All rights reserved."
- lovegrenoble 2y agoAlternatively: https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons
- txtsd 2y agoJust what I needed today. Thank you!
- rathboma 2y agoAutomatic like for including Beekeeper Studio :-D.
- keyle 2y agoI find it amusing because in the past, I would have used this to find the logo of the company that I'd work for at the time. I wonder how many employees of said brands will use this rather than their corporate environment to find an svg asset!
- al_borland 2y agoI’ve done this. The internal brand center was focused mostly on sales and people interfacing with customers. I was using it for internal tools though. I’m sure if I made customer facing sites I would need to go through more official channels and make sure all the branding guidelines are followed to the letter.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y agoWish they'd make an SVG for my business! Hah
- wodenokoto 2y agoI had to convert and edit .ai files to get commonly used versions of our logo.
- astrowilliam 2y agoI did not expect to see AEW (All Elite Wrestling) on the list.
- PeterNoble 2y agoIt was added by one of our regular contributors to complement the WWE & NJPW icons already in our library. It's far from the most niche one we have, though. My personal favourite is the Chupa Chups one, which I added on a whim a few years ago after learning it was designed by Salvador Dalí.
- ArcaneMoose 2y agoDon't tell the guy who paid $70k for icons about this!
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- spoonfeeder006 2y agoAnd don't tell them about the browser inspector nor how to copy SVG code using that
- bryanrasmussen 2y agoI didn't want to tell you, but there is a thing called copyright. That said, if you copy SVG it is often easy to change the paths etc. and make it "yours". I guess I'd rather pay a small bit though.
- Culonavirus 2y ago> a thing called copyright All the chatbot corps out there: And I took that personally.
- Brajeshwar 2y agoWhat is the story? URL to read? (Search resulted in another CEO's $70K salary thing.) Is this like Pepsi’s Million Dollar logo redesign?
- ec109685 2y agoIt’s quite the saga, including the designer putting in their portfolio that they actually completed the project as they were ghosting their client: https://x.com/Shpigford/status/1807802947394588842 https://x.com/Shpigford/status/1807802947394588842
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- anamexis 2y agoThe site is broken for me on Safari (Mac), works in Chrome.
- albert_e 2y agoSurprisingly - No Microsoft logos. (Windows, Office, Azure, ...)
- KTibow 2y agoLooks like the legal team reached out and said that making monochrome icons isn't allowed [0] 0: https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/issues/11236 https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/issues/11236
- BizyDev 2y agoThat's really a shitty move from MS. But, technically, since they're still in the commit history, you can retrieve them for personnal/private use.
- albert_e 2y agovery interesting Adobe seems to have no problem selling monochrome logos of Microsoft products https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=ms+word&asset_id=595866420 https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=ms+word&asset_id=595866420
- wodenokoto 2y agoWhile it’s easier to have everything in one repo, Microsoft do have icon packs with svgs.
- bickett 2y agoOh that's great, I'm always looking for logos for apps
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y agoIs this sarcasm? This seems like an uncommon thing to want.
- danielvaughn 2y agoI just don't see the need for sites like this, given that Iconify exists: https://icon-sets.iconify.design https://icon-sets.iconify.design They probably have >90% of all the logos contained on simpleicons, along with nearly any other icon you could ever want or need.
- KTibow 2y agoSimple Icons is an icon pack on Iconify
- lloydatkinson 2y agoI was just about to ask if it was. That's good, because honestly fuck every other spaghetti solution for icons. It's tiring, and iconify coupled with the related unplugin-icons library solves it.
- danielvaughn 2y agoah interesting, ok yeah that makes sense actually. thanks for letting me know!
- TRiG_Ireland 2y agoThe first one I downloaded (RTÉ colour) is an invalid SVG file. Incidentally, what is the third icon on the home page, /e/? There's a name impossible to google.
- rascul 2y ago> Incidentally, what is the third icon on the home page, /e/? There's a name impossible to google. https://e.foundation/e-os/ https://e.foundation/e-os/
- NewJazz 2y agoSo degoogled you can't even google them!
- chrismorgan 2y agoThe É is entity-encoded as É in the SVG, but then they generate `data:` URIs in this specific place, but don’t URL-encode the # as %23.
- TRiG_Ireland 2y agoThe odd thing is that the black and white version works fine.
- PeterNoble 2y agoThanks, TRiG; we're working on a fix for this and should have it implemented soon. As the token Irishman on the team, that icon was one of my creations, by the way.
- qingcharles 2y agoI use these for everything, I've even corrected a couple of them as sites tend to tweak their logos all the time: https://github.com/tabler/tabler-icons https://github.com/tabler/tabler-icons
- mattigames 2y agoDoesn't have pornhub or Brazzers, not even logo SVG archiving escapes the tentacles of the moral police (keep in mind pornhub it's one of the top 10 most visited sites in the world)
- motoxpro 2y agoAlso no Microsoft logos (top two biggest companies in the world). The moral police are out of control! /s
- mattigames 2y agoExcept I actually looked for the other top 10 most popular websites before making my comment, they are all there (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, et al), as you may know Microsoft.com doesn't even make it to the top 100
- jawngee 2y agoMicrosoft legal requested they remove their logos. https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/issues/11236 https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/issues/11236
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- PeterNoble 2y agoPlease see the conversation at https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/issues/5438 https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/issues/5438, where we very deliberately tried to avoid playing moral police.
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- Fileformat 2y agoShameless self promotion: I build a logo search engine that currently has almost 500K logos indexed: https://logosear.ch/ https://logosear.ch/ Also, a good source of official SVG logos is BIMI, a standard that uses DNS to point to the URL of an SVG. Spec: https://bimigroup.org/ https://bimigroup.org/ I recently scraped them for the top N domains: https://bimi-explorer.svg.zone/bimi/ https://bimi-explorer.svg.zone/bimi/
- alt227 2y agoWell done! A couple of points. It would be great if it listed the file format and size on the results page, so I dont have to click on every logo to find that informatino out. How does this differ from doing a google image search of "$BRAND logo"?
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- Spunkie 2y agoIt's pretty surprising looking at this list that all these sites are paying $2000+ for a bimi cert.
- chrismorgan 2y agoThey’re not. Some buy a Verified Mark Certificate (e.g. ikea.{com, ca, fr, maybe others} do), but most won’t ever (e.g. the first one on https://bimi-explorer.svg.zone/bimi/list.html https://bimi-explorer.svg.zone/bimi/list.html 026430010.co.il, and a slightly random other dailydot.com). Also the two Mark Verifying Authorities listed at https://bimigroup.org/implementation-guide/ https://bimigroup.org/implementation-guide/ currently talk about approximately $1,300 and $1,600 per year, less than the $2,000 you say though recurring.
- rammer 2y agoFor all others Try Brandfetch and their plugins in Miro and canva
- ctenb 2y agoI read this as svg icons of size 3 kilobytes
- edent 2y agoAs an alternative, I run SuperTinyIcons. They're all full colour and each icon is guaranteed to be under 1KB. https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons
- robbiejs 2y agoVery nice, nice set of constraints!
- chrismorgan 2y agoI was curious what the biggest would be, and was disappointed when I looked at Glitch to find its 1017 bytes was so close to the limit only because of unnecessary usage of the XLink namespace. <use href> (as the preferred alternative to <use xlink:href>) has worked across the board¹ for more than five years now. Shortening that stuff trims off 55 bytes. I also managed to shave another 11 bytes off because that’s the sort of thing I do for fun: <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-label="Glitch" role="img" viewBox="0 0 512 512" stroke-width="0" stroke="#2800ff"><path d="m0 0H512V512H0" fill="#d0fff1"/><mask id="m"><path id="f" d="m240 266q57 3 140-26c31 5 75 32 64 10s-2-24-2-38-8-22-1-33 8-35 4-36-53 22-65 21-38-14-72-19q-10-5-14-12t-39-16-44-10-29 26q-42-2-67 12t-38 28-12 30c23 9 38 12 3 22q7 8 19 15t31 14 48 1q19 40 77 28" fill="#fff"/><use href="#f" y="119"/></mask><g mask="url(#m)"><path d="m9 9H448V406H9" fill="#2800ff"/><path d="m9 256 207 2v-11h136v12h99V9H9" fill="#f79"/><g id="a"><path d="m183 162q19 30 3 58m17 14c13-41 14-45 2-76m0 0c78 4 112 7 184 41" fill="none" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-width="8"/><circle cx="131" cy="184" r="18" fill="#fff"/><path d="m113 184a14 14 0 110 1m3 5a5 5 0 100-2"/></g><use href="#a" y="120" stroke="#f79"/><path d="m216 258v-11h136v12h99v-55H299v11H9v191H447v-82H247v11H9v-79" style="fill:#37b;mix-blend-mode:screen"/></g></svg> —⁂— ¹ I’m only considering browsers; see https://caniuse.com/mdn-svg_elements_use_href https://caniuse.com/mdn-svg_elements_use_href for compatibility data. As for other tools that handle SVG, I expect approximately all actively-maintained things to support this by now, but some older tools certainly won’t. I’ll also remark that I’m getting mixed signals about how you’re supposed to use these things. If you’re supposed to inline them into HTML, the SVG namespace declaration is unnecessary (so you can save 35 bytes, and you could also then remove many of the quotation marks on attributes); but if you’re supposed to link them, the aria-label and role="img" attributes don’t do anything (so you can save 25 + name-length bytes).
- shahzaibmushtaq 2y agoIf you are going to use them somewhere in your online product/project, kindly check the License agreement first.
- franciscop 2y agoAlso check the DISCLAIMER, which seems to be overriding the License: - Disclaimer: https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/blob/master/DISCLAIMER.md https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/blob/master/DIS... - License (CC0): https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/blob/master/LICENSE.md https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/blob/master/LIC...
- InDubioProRubio 2y agoOr just draw googly eyes on top and its a parody and totally legal art.. You can also have a NN turn it into a prompt and then recreate the SVG from prompt - shove it through the laundryAImat - nothing is sacred, the world they wanted they have now, let them suffer speared on there own swords. https://svg.io/ https://svg.io/
- shahzaibmushtaq 2y agoThe disclaimer is about including your icon(s) in simple-icons project, whereas the license is about how to use this project.
- franciscop 2y agoThat's what the intro would have you believe, but if you read past it you find these bombs: > "Simple Icons is released under CC0 - though that doesn't mean to imply that all icons within the project are also CC0. Please see individual licenses where available." > "the absence of licence data for a particular icon does not imply that the icon is not released under a license."
- shahzaibmushtaq 2y agoMajority of the icons uploaded on simple-icons are registered trademarks and IP as well. If you read carefully what you have highlighted, this is what exactly simple-icons is trying to say.
- springogeek 2y agoThis is cool, but I wish I didn't have to get past "infinite" scrolling to check the license of the icons in the footer (it's CC0). "free" is a bit ambiguous.
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