CoreUI Icons
Creative
icon set
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 2 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Idea: 1 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Icons look great and are a welcome variety beside Font Awesome and Feather.
From 2 comments
Not related to this specific set of icons (they look great)... but I'm really wondering when the pendulum is going to swing back from line art to actual colors and solids again.…
crazygringo on HNGood to see more variety to things like Font Awesome and Feather, nice work!
pssdbt on HN
Objections
Icon fonts are slow and hated by users who disable webfonts.
From 2 comments
As someone who disables webfont downloading, I hate when fonts are used for icons.
ebg13 on HNSlow and sans-serif loaded, in my case. I have directed by browser to use Linux Libertine in place of all web fonts, and have a much improved experience, bad icons notwithstanding.
ncmncm on HN
Flat line-art icons are harder to tell apart than colored icons.
From 1 comment
Not related to this specific set of icons (they look great)... but I'm really wondering when the pendulum is going to swing back from line art to actual colors and solids again.…
crazygringo on HN
Requests
Duo-tone icon support, which the maker says they are working on.
From 1 comment
We're working on duo-tone icons, and we have to find the best solution for this problem. If you any ideas please let me know.
mrholek on HN
Questions
Whether colour icon fonts will be supported on the web.
From 1 comment
That's true, but most sites don't support dark mode anyways, and it's still not clear that dark mode will be widely adopted web designers. In any case, you're right there would…
crazygringo on HN
Alternatives named
Feather Icons
From 2 comments
See also: Feather Icons[1]. [1] https://feathericons.com/
kerkeslager on HNCongratulations. I was using similar project 'feathericons'[1] in my website, but later went on to use just the requisite couple of svg's directly with href. Reasons being, 1.…
Abishek_Muthian on HN
Font Awesome
From 1 comment
Good to see more variety to things like Font Awesome and Feather, nice work!
pssdbt on HN
Unicode characters
From 1 comment
Lovely icons, but I have been finding it so much simpler to just use unicode characters when I need icons. I can't always find exactly what I want, but I can usually get close…
jacob019 on HN