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Free vector icons
- justncase80 13y agoThis is great, I hope he makes more. I'd especially like to see the +,-,x overlays as separate icons. Though that's easy enough to do on your own if you needed to. Still, I love this.
- ogreyonder 13y agoWow! I was just looking for something like this. Thanks for sharing. I especially like the permissive license -- commercial or non-commercial use with modifications allowed and no attribution requirements. Basically, you just can't sell the icons as your own work. That means I can actually have nice icons in this project I'm doing for work. Good stuff.
- nilliams 13y agoAlso see FlatIcon [1] which has 1000s of icons. I've been especially impressed by their download flow. Only negative is the pagination, which is a bit pants. [1] http://www.flaticon.com http://www.flaticon.com
- dlhavema 13y agowhat is the "we are working to get these available for you" link under most of the packs?
- nilliams 13y agoHmm I hadn't noticed that, you still seem to be able to download the icons individually/bundled though by clicking on the download link on each icon.
- e98cuenc 13y agoIt's because we're adding a button to download the entire pack. Bad wording, we should have let it empty until the button is there.
- jzig 13y agoI don't suppose there's a "download all" link somewhere, where I can just browse through of my own accord?
- e98cuenc 13y agoWe're adding a button to download entire packs in one click, in all formats. This should ease a lot the navigation. If you have photoshop you can also use our plugin to search directly from photoshop and insert any icon that matches your search in your project.
- e98cuenc 13y agoHi, we will love to hear your ideas on how can we improve it, or more details into which parts are more painful. My email is my HN login @gmail.com.
- nilliams 13y agoCertainly! I can save the email and give you the short answer that I should have articulated better in my comment (apologies). Basically when I'm browsing within a single pack, any sort of pagination seems unnecessary. I tend to agree with the common trend that pagination is just a bad user experience in general. Scrolling, even with a 'More' button is always better. Ideally, implement infinite scrolling. Thanks for the great service!
- Ruska 13y agoYou should also check out Font Awesome[1]. It's a really useful icon collection licensed under the MIT license. [1] http://fontawesome.io/ http://fontawesome.io/
- parkov 13y agoPiggybacking on this, GlyphSearch is a tool for searching Font Awesome and several other popular icon fonts. http://glyphsearch.com/ http://glyphsearch.com/
- hugoroy 13y agoYou misread the license: http://ikons.piotrkwiatkowski.co.uk/license.html http://ikons.piotrkwiatkowski.co.uk/license.html > Making modifications or alterations to any of the icons does not free you to then sell, license or distribute them to anyone else. If you’re looking for something really permissive: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/ http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/
- Chromozon 13y agoAre the company specific icons on the bottom (Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Google+, etc.) not copyrighted?
- Digit-Al 13y agoLoads of icon packs have customised versions of the social media icons. IANAL, but my reading of the situation is that the companies hold the copyright for the logos, but in general allow people to use the logos, and their own versions of them, to link to their services. So, for instance, if someone were to try to use a version of the Dropbox logo as the icon for their own software or service then they would be sued, but if they use the icon for a link to share something on Dropbox then that is alright because it is promoting their business.
- kbutler 13y agoTrademark law is applicable here. In general, you can use a trademark to refer to the trademark owner's good or service. That is, you can use the Android robot to refer to Android.
- babuskov 13y agoGoogle explicitly allows use of Android robot, but disallows use of ANDROID logo (one with letters): http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/promote/brand.html http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/promote/b...
- ChrisArchitect 13y agoinspired by Batch or what? http://adamwhitcroft.com/batch/ http://adamwhitcroft.com/batch/
- Spone 13y agoa webfont format would be perfect :)
- yiransheng 13y ago[Icomoon](http://icomoon.io/ http://icomoon.io/) could easily convert svg into web font icons.
- hadem 13y agoTake a look at http://fontawesome.io/ http://fontawesome.io/ as well. :-)
- thatthatis 13y agoIt's worth noting that these come with a free commercial license, not a FOSS license. That said, for what I'd use them for free commercial is far preferable to GPL.
- pessimism 13y agoAs someone with open projects on GitHub that may or may not be a future source of income (lol), specific and succinct language on the licensing is probably your best way to ensure adoption of your product. I just cannot be bothered to risk using an icon font in a GitHub repo only to have to bleach every trace of it, because I misunderstood the license or the author’s intent. To help remember just how the hell the most popular “free” font icons are licensed, I created a gist: https://gist.github.com/4443939 https://gist.github.com/4443939. There is no way that overview looks simple to anyone. This is what I as a developer think about as the very first thing, when I see a collection of free-asterisk icons. The cognitive load of parsing the legalese, especially from the standpoint of someone with zero jurisprudence is a huge toll and reason for my personal bounce rate on similar products. Consider what the point of your free icons are (portfolio vs. seeing your icons everywhere), and how you wish to stand out (quality vs. licensing). They say cache invalidation and naming things are the hardest thing in programming, but licensing is definitely up there; at the very least, it is something most people in the field do not—but should—understand. +++ tl;dr: If you launch a set of free(*) icons, crystal-clear licensing should be at the top of your checklist.
- jenius 13y agoI wonder why most free icon sets are licensed with attribution but most free software is not...
- madeofpalk 13y agoPerhaps designers and developers have different priorities?
- lloeki 13y ago> licensed with attribution but most free software is not Let's see: 3BSD: Redistributions in [source/binary] form must [retain/reproduce] the above copyright notice [...] MIT: The above copyright notice [...] shall be included in all copies [...] ASL: You must retain [...] all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices MPL: You may not remove or alter the substance of any license notices (including copyright notices, patent notices, disclaimers of warranty, or limitations of liability) The above sounds like attribution to me. And here's for the elephant in the room: GPLv3: Not required by default (merely requires an appropriate copyright notice to make the license actually enforceable), but (7.) Additional Terms may supplement the basic terms (especially for but not limited to additional material such as art). GPL is deemed compatible with BSD so there's no problem in adding such a clause, even if it is free form. Even if not required, I guess it is customary to do so anyway.
- davexunit 13y agoWindows icon, Apple icon, no GNU or Linux icon. Also, the license doesn't seem to be a free culture license. Lame.
- RexRollman 13y agoLinux/GNU doesn't really have a foothold in the world of design, so that it not surprising.
- jbeja 13y agoA cute penguin silhouette?
- legulere 13y agoThe JPEG artifacts here really hurt. A png would also have been smaller probably.
- Breefield 13y agoEvery single SVG icon in the .zip contains every icon in the whole set... Show 4 different icons on your site? Load the whole set 4 times...
- runn1ng 13y agoI am not sure about the icons in the last two rows. I would bet they are certainly trademarks of other companies.
- sampk 13y agoYeah the project owner should add a disclaimer.
- akrakesh 13y agoOf course. Most icons packs include trademarks and servicemarks of companies without worrying about the legal implications. I'm a little paranoid of legal quagmires and that's why I didn't include any of them in my Clear icon pack http://appzgear.com/products/clear-icons.htm http://appzgear.com/products/clear-icons.htm The understanding is that anybody who wants to use the trademarks can do so by downloading them directly from the companies' websites.
- jpamorgan 13y agoawesome!