Elusive Icons - 268 Sleek Vector Icons For Bootstrap

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

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/

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

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.

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.

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.

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

step-backward and step-forward look awfully similar.

No love for base 2?

These are WAY better than Font Awesome, thank you.

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.

No icon for StackOverflow? :(

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 ...