Elusive Icons - 268 Sleek Vector Icons For Bootstrap(aristath.github.com)

149 pointsby Hirveshvor 14 Jahren25 comments

aristath.github.com

Elusive Icons - 268 Sleek Vector Icons For Bootstrap

http://aristath.github.com/elusive-iconfont/

14 comments

_frogvor 14 Jahren

I really want to start using icon fonts in my projects, the way they make it so easy to support HiDPI displays could save on a bunch of development time.

My problem, however, is that the authors of these fonts seem to pay no mind to pixel-fitting their icons. This means, simply put, that the edges of the icons don't line up to exact pixel values and the resulting icon tends to look 'fuzzy'.

GitHub thankfully took note of these issues with their vector 'Octicons'[1] by optimising for common display sizes. By doing this they get a lot of the benefits of vector icons without sacrificing sharpness and it'd be fantastic to see a more general purpose icon font that took a similar approach.

[1]: https://github.com/blog/1135-the-making-of-octicons

ncritvor 14 Jahren

Check out the IcoMoon icons, they don't have the fuzzyness like fontawsome icons for example...

swilliamsvor 14 Jahren

Is this kosher? It looks like they're re-bundling the Glyphicons set that comes with Bootstrap[1]. Glyphicons has a free set with a CC by-nd license[2], which wouldn't work here.

1. http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/base-css.html#icons

2. http://glyphicons.com/

radqvor 14 Jahren

I don't think they are re-bundling the Glyphicons set... a lot of the icons look different. What makes you think so?

swilliamsvor 14 Jahren

Looking closely at them side by side, there are minute differences, so I withdraw my complaint.

They look awfully similar though.

jeffehobbsvor 14 Jahren

Cool icons! You've got a misused homonym/heterograph on the front, though. You have "claws" and you want it spelled "clause". Great project!

robomartinvor 14 Jahren

I actually hope he meant "claws" as some of these license agreements feel exactly like that.

jonathanycvor 14 Jahren

Heh, same. I thought it was meant to be a clever pun.

JD557vor 14 Jahren

It's good to see some icons here that are not present on font awesome (such as the male and female icons, which usually come in handy).

I also noticed the -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; in the CSS. Even though I've seen that pointed out as a bad practice a few days ago (I think I saw that here), it seems to fix the lack of anti-aliasing on Chrome for Windows.

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angry-hackervor 14 Jahren

Every font looks horrible on Windows 7 + Chrome, which should be the most popular choice of browser and OS out there.

As long as it's not fixed, no way to use fonts as icons or even Google's own web font collection. Probably there are so many designers living in Mac world where there are no such problems with anti-aliasing so they are not aware or ignore this problem completely.

ncritvor 14 Jahren

See my comment to _frog: IcoMoon icons look pretty good, even on windows with chrome...

[deleted]vor 14 Jahren

Hirveshvor 14 Jahren

via: http://www.functionn.in/2012/11/the-best-free-iconic-web-fon...

Elusive Icons is a new iconic web font released meant to be used with Twitter Bootstrap or Zurb Foundation 2 front-end frameworks. The web fonts contains a whopping 268 glyphs meant mostly for web and mobile applications and websites.

It can be used as an alternative to Font Awesome, the default web font packaged with Twitter Bootstrap. The web font is released under the SIL Open Font License.

lgp171188vor 14 Jahren

I don't think Font Awesome is the default web font packaged with Twitter Bootstrap, which uses Glyphicons.

cschmidtvor 14 Jahren

You are absolutely correct. However, Font Awesome might be the most frequently used set of icons with TB.

Hirveshvor 14 Jahren

My apologies. Should have phrased it otherwise, to mean what cschmidt said below! :)

swanifyvor 14 Jahren

Great set of icons, you can never have too many icons!!

flaxvor 14 Jahren

step-backward and step-forward look awfully similar.

Zoophyvor 14 Jahren

No love for base 2?

tonydivvor 14 Jahren

These are WAY better than Font Awesome, thank you.

programminggeekvor 14 Jahren

If they are open source, how are they elusive? Something freely available and posted to HN isn't elusive at all.

At least a name like Font Awesome is somewhat self-descriptive or obvious.

Nice icon set nonetheless.

Hirveshvor 14 Jahren

Bummer. Now watch the dev behind this come out and say it was not 'ready for prime time'. Happens all the time with my submissions.

Nothing eludes www.functionn.in! They should know better than to name there stuffs Elusive :P

daGrevisvor 14 Jahren

No icon for StackOverflow? :(

Hirveshvor 14 Jahren

this is work in progress, you can make a request if you'd like , I'm sure the devs will listen to your heart-felt outcries :P

daGrevisvor 14 Jahren

Guess what? They did! :)

camusvor 14 Jahren

Great but i'm getting sick and tired of all the user facing websites that have no personality and just look like yet another bootstrap site... For back-offices ,Bootstrap is great but too many websites look poorly designed because of Bootstrap overuse. At least , people , do basic customisation... Personnaly it doesnt makes me want to try the product anymore ...