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Comment by pvinis | Hacker News Reader

All these icon collections are great, but I always find missing stuff there, and I don't know how this can be fixed besides complaining (and I don't want to complain when they give it for free).

For example, this one looks really nice, but it only has 'battery' and 'battery-charging'. In an app I work on, I need battery with no charge, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, and charging.

Then I think that this would be small to add, but again I don't want to complain. Then maybe someone will need a battery with a sliding charge, so they can represent as many charge percentages as the pixels allow. And then this becomes a whole other things, and not just an icon collection..

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This is the full SVG source code for the battery icon:

It shouldn't be too hard to add another rectangle with whatever width you want. Just open up the dev tools and play around with it.

Sure, I could make something that works. I could make a hacky icon for each. And that's what I did for my app.

I could try to contribute, but it's not going to be in the style of the rest of the icons. That's the point of a collection. It's a collection that one or a team of people made. I can make a PR that they have to look at and fix and/or redesign. I could ask them to create it themselves. But in both of these scenarios, the designers of the collection need to do more work, for me, for free, which is not great for them.

Then perhaps open source icons are not a good fit for you! If you have some requests/demands, and can't do the work yourself, then paying a premium to have that work done seems like the correct route.

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i know this wasn't the point of your comment, but: overlaying/combining SVGs really isn't a hack.

> In an app I work on, I need battery with no charge, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, and charging.

These icons are provided in svg format. You can open it in Sketch app, draw a rectangle to show Desiree battery level, the click on the path and click "export/save as SVG".

And then contribute the new icons back.

You can't expect a free icon set to have everything you need. This might help you: https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=25%20battery

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