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Iconhunt: Search 150k free and open source icons

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So this uses the icons of https://icon-sets.iconify.design/typcn/social-github/ (this one is CC BY SA 4.0) with critically the attribution, author and license information of the icons missing.

Here's a big list of different free svg icons websites:

https://www.svgrepo.com/

https://iconify.design/

https://iconduck.com/

https://icons8.com/ (https://icons8.com/line-awesome)

https://www.flaticon.com/ (attribution warning)

I like the interface/features of Icones [0] better.

[0]: https://icones.js.org/

I searched for "mute" on both but on yours I only find sets but not specific mute icons?

https://icones.js.org/collection/all?s=mute

You have to click the top-left Search icon to do a sitewide search.

That's confusing, especially on the main page. Why not have a single search that includes multiple types of results, kind of like Spotify?

Beats me. But I do agree with you, I felt the same way. I just wanted to point out that the feature does exist.

Related: If you don’t mind free with attribution, I’ve always had good luck with https://thenounproject.com/

It's kind of depressing that almost no matter what I search, I get almost entirely the same monochrome, flat, samey-looking line-art icons.

Why does it have to be this way?

In a word: Diversity.

Try these words: banana, penguin, pistol, octopus...

Perhaps the icons won't be useful for real apps.

You need to strip trailing spaces. My first search for "firewall " surprisingly produced 0 results - when I noticed I had inadvertently added a space (well I think autocomplete did) and resubmitted, I got a more pleasing 13 results.

Why don't the icons have attribution?

How does this compare to Iconify - https://icon-sets.iconify.design ?

About page says it uses iconify.design, that's why it matches the same 150.000 icons

Similarly I am using https://mdisearch.com to find mdi icons. It is made for developers and integrates Algolia to find icons with synonyms (looking for "user" returns "account" icon) which is very convenient.

edit : typo + synonym exemple

Generally, I've always just stuck with whatever was the recommended set of icons (and the way to use them) with whatever front end solution I might have been working with.

For example, for Bootstrap, they have their own icon set: https://icons.getbootstrap.com/

It's the same for something like PrimeVue, which sits on top of Vue: https://primevue.org/icons

But at the same time it's really cool to be able to find custom icons easily and combine whatever you need yourself, even though I wouldn't trust myself to produce anything consistent and coherent like that.

The search could improve a little. Now it looks like icon_name.includes(search_text) and generates either too much or nothing at all.

There are numerous ways to improve it, but the least effort would be to split search_text by whitespace and and-filter by these words (wrt boundaries!).

I've been using a similar site called icones.js.org that also lets you search the Iconify library, but Iconhunt is better in one critical way: It lets you search by keyword on its homepage, instead of having to click a search icon first.

Any suggestion on how to improve the search results? I could try to improve the search by allowing space and use that as an operator, eg AND or OR. Any other ideas?

Eirik, creator of IconHunt (noob)

Fail: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=satellite+dish

Pass: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=satellite

Pass: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=spy

Fail: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=F1+car

Fail: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=grand+prix+car

Fail: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=race+car

Pass: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=car

Pass: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=food

Pass: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=party

Pass but Fail: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=rave

Pass but Fail: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=life

Pass: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=modem

Fail: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=stiffie

Pass: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=disk

Pass: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=dog

Pass but Fail: https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=cat

Hit and miss for the less commonly required icons, but in all helpful. https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=thumbsup

search with a - instead of a space, I get more results (i.e. F1-car returns one icon, and so does thumbs-up)

I think it's mostly the search engine that is bad, the collection is ok. Queries for some of your "FAIL" lines:

https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=satellite-dish

https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=f1

https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=race-car / https://www.iconhunt.site/?search=racecar

How do I know for sure they are free in the sense that I can use them in a book cover, broadcast television, print magazines? My advice is, always modify the icons a little yourself.

That's not enough! You can't circumvent license requirements by modifying an icon, the same way you can't ignore codebase licenses by modifying the code.

The codebase example is worryingly common though, I have had countless colleagues try and modify a piece of code they found and include it in their PRs without adhering to the license.

As long as there are no patents or trademarks, I don't think you can argue much for copyright of a similarly looking icon say of a football. It's an icon, not a logo. Logos would be trademarked. But I am not a lawyer.

>> It is important to note that if the icon is a standard symbol or image that is commonly used in a particular industry or field, it may be difficult to claim copyright protection. Additionally, if the icon is a functional element, such as an icon that is necessary for the operation of a software program, it may not be eligible for copyright protection.

some of the icons on this app literally have TM in the corner lol. The creator of this app is straight up just stealing icons on the web.

Trademark and copyright are very different things.

I don't think your reasoning is safe at all. I'm obviously also not a lawyer, but when doing commercial work it's better to assume everything is copyrighted unless explicitly otherwise mentioned.

Have to ask Stable Diffusion to circumvent license requirements on your behalf, right?

That's what all the coding AI are supposedly for.

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