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.
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...)
I don't think it really is that provocative -- clearly if you have no relationship with an open source project then they don't owe you anything, and you can't rely on them. So if your project is mission critical, then you either need to start up that relationship or apply internal engineering effort to vetting their code.
Of course I'm sure the second person to touch a computer did something irresponsible with it, so what can you do, right?
Hrmmm... while your comment is intended in good faith, I think it actually does a disservice to open source.
I've seen plenty of terrible quality closed source projects and even some impressive high quality closed source projects that were still imperfect and open to human error.
I don't think we should have lower levels of scrutiny or expectations from open source projects. I do think the gp's criticism was exaggerated and unwarranted for any project, open or closed.
On the other hand, it also displays the unbelievable entitledness of many, many people in tech, that feel right to not only shit on the work that others have provided for free (when they're probably going to use it in projects that make actual money), but also have the gall to say that the maintainers should fix it faster.
It's open source, you've seen the error and you know how to fix it. Make a pull request yourself.
If it really bothers you so much, it sounds like it would’ve taken you less time to fix it than to complain all the way over here. I’m pointing this out not because open source is often thankless (it can be), but because this kind of negativity snipe is often demoralizing even for those of us not even maintaining the project.
Thanksfully someone did which show also the beauty of the open source, it only took a few minutes for someone to volunteer and provide a correction, which the poster above could have done instead of complaining.
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.
> 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."
I think it is intentional and I think the reason isn't very hard to figure out. Handicapped has been associated with "incapable" for a long time, and this is intentionally turning that on its head to force people to (maybe!) subconsciously reconsider when they start seeing this symbol spray painted in parking lots, plastered on walls, and otherwise surrounding them in the spaces they regularly visit.
This wasn't meant to be a neutral change, or even a change to bring it from negative connotations to neutral - it's the equivalent of affirmative action for symbols.
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!
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.
A bit late but I have a problem with whichever icon search sites I've come across: it's hard to find a set.
For example if I search Facebook, I get dozens of icons. Now how do I find the same style of icons for Twitter, etc. If you can fix that, it'll truly make you awesome.
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.
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.
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!
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
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?
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).
It’s like the whole web has come to the conclusion that icons have to be monochrome and boring. Why? What is this group-think? Why do other styles of icons “look dated”? I have nothing against the “metro” or “modern” (by m$) style per se. Like all designs it has its strengths and weaknesses. But I miss variety, Icon-sets (or websites for that matter) with personality. “metro” used to have personality, but has long since lost it because everything looks the same.
Anyone here remember the silk icons? [1]
I’m not arguing they are superior.
But moar variety please: “silk icons”, “flat icons”, “silly icons”, “school icons”, “cartoon icons”…
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Similarly, Visual Studio actually comes with an icon library at https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/..., though 2012 sadly switched from 3D icons (a mixed bag, some beautiful ones and then some awful ones like a downscaled yellow-shaded XP-era exclamation point triangle) to flat line art indistinguishable from today's icon style except in having backgrounds. You can find "totally legal" offline downloads of VS2010 on archive.org (the online installer is down).
Interesting icon set. I love the idea behind it, but looking at their icon preview at https://i0.wp.com/codefisher.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/..., I noticed that some images look great at higher resolutions (the star), while others look like a bad hqx/xbrz job, with a mix of curved, pixel-aligned (lock, book, anchor, monitor stand), and blurred features (book stripes), with inconsistent line widths (the house's roof and bushes, the computer stand and anchor).
layer8 was asking for icons that look good on low DPI screens. Breeze'a toolbar icons are mostly monochrome, which works but IMO is missing the charm of 98's colorized icons through Vista/7's 3D icons.
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
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?
That's how Git submodules [1] show up on GitHub. I didn't actually know the project was using them. Interesting. As far as I know, this is an ideal use case for submodules, yet at least I've rarely encountered them in the web dev scene for some reason (well, IIRC there are some gotchas).
I’m curious how to tell if an icon pack passed any kind of i18n testing.
If I remember correctly, Material Design team did lots of i18n research for their icon pack. I assume Bootstrap icons also score well, owing to the diversity of contributors (although, I’m surprised RTL landed only recently).
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.
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"...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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/