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Weird, that first screenshot [0] contains Audible's logo [1] which is an Amazon company (far right icon in the first row of icons).

It looks like they are repurposing Audible's logo to mean "Dynamic Command Execution" [2]

[0] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47648296/72893326-...

[1] https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/audibleweb/arya/navig...

[2] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47648296/71859554-...

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Heh, the icon is named "audible":

    "displayName": "Dynamic command execution",
    "detectedIcon": "fab fa-audible"

It's probably unintentionally used by an engineer unfamiliar with the product as audible is more common as a descriptive word than as a brand.

https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInspector/blob/08c91...

Yeah this happens pretty often, though I'm surprised it continues with Font Awesome's organizational changes: The "fab" prefix is specifically supposed to communicate that it's an icon from the "Brands" style. (Non-brand icons use "fas".) If you find yourself using a "fab" icon generically, you might want to double-check what it's supposed to represent...

Honestly, a lot of times when I'm doing quick designs, I just open the font page with all the images and just visually pick any that looks best. Definitely needed some sort of legal pass before release.

I spy logos for GitHub, Wordpress, Adobe, Linux, and Facebook as well. Not sure what they represent though. I would imagine that most of them make sense (Linux is an OS, Facebook is a cloud service, GitHub is a development tool, etc). The only one I'm curious about is Adobe. "Active Content" meaning Flash?

EDIT: Thanks to xroot's comment above, it is indeed Adobe Flash.

There's also the Adobe Acrobat icon (second to last in "Active Content"), probably to signify PDF.

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