If you are making software, I implore you to do a quick and simple test if you plan on using icons: show them to some users and ask if they would know what they mean. There is a significant chance the icons are meaningless. Yes, context helps, yes, merely communicating difference helps, but, for the most part, nobody knows what any of these things mean.
Relying on icons alone is never entirely without risk, no matter how conventional the icon. if you Value accessibility don’t substitute text for imagery. Use imagery to provide a visual anchor for text.
Has anyone come across a semantic search to navigate these icon libraries? I want to be able to search for “Industry” and get icons returned that show factory, cogs etc. I’ve been using https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons but the same problem there, you search for a string and it just greps across the official icon name. If you don’t know the name you’re not going to find it.
Excellent work, Love it, bookmark it and considered it for future use!
The HN title is, however, a bit confusing/misleading, especially at the end with 'NES' as it has a special meaning/feeling when read in the context of HN. At first, I though this was a project showing a remake of some icons from the Nintendo Entertainment System. Also, the word Icône (with 'e' at the end and accent circonflexe on letter 'o') is the French translation of icon.
As you point out, 'icônes' is French for 'icons'; the name is probably related to the fact that the site is built using Vite. Was NES capitalized in the title earlier?
Often times, I don't find all the icons I need in one icon package. I wish there was a way to find icons of various sources (and thus, various styles) and make them more consistent to be used in a program.
awesome, i've totally run into the search problem too - always annoys me when the icon names barely match what i need. you ever wonder if icons could just fade out someday and well just rely on smarter search instead?
This is a nice collection.
If you are making software, I implore you to do a quick and simple test if you plan on using icons: show them to some users and ask if they would know what they mean. There is a significant chance the icons are meaningless. Yes, context helps, yes, merely communicating difference helps, but, for the most part, nobody knows what any of these things mean.
Relying on icons alone is never entirely without risk, no matter how conventional the icon. if you Value accessibility don’t substitute text for imagery. Use imagery to provide a visual anchor for text.
What's with the hat on the o?
In French it's used to mark where an o was followed by an s in Latin, but that's not the case here. Icon comes from Greek word that never had an S.
Wiktionary reports an Esperanto iĉon, which means "male".
Perhaps this means something in some other language? Or is it a metal umlaut?
It’s the French spelling. Saying it’s only to indicate the disappearance of an “s” is reductive
Anthony Fu (https://antfu.me/projects).
Should to be known widely.
The guy is a living legend.
Holy, this guy (?) is like the Stephen King of coding.
Great resource.
Has anyone come across a semantic search to navigate these icon libraries? I want to be able to search for “Industry” and get icons returned that show factory, cogs etc. I’ve been using https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons but the same problem there, you search for a string and it just greps across the official icon name. If you don’t know the name you’re not going to find it.
If you’re looking for icons http://thenounproject.com (no affiliation) has a huge collection.
Excellent work, Love it, bookmark it and considered it for future use!
The HN title is, however, a bit confusing/misleading, especially at the end with 'NES' as it has a special meaning/feeling when read in the context of HN. At first, I though this was a project showing a remake of some icons from the Nintendo Entertainment System. Also, the word Icône (with 'e' at the end and accent circonflexe on letter 'o') is the French translation of icon.
As you point out, 'icônes' is French for 'icons'; the name is probably related to the fact that the site is built using Vite. Was NES capitalized in the title earlier?
Yes, the original title was something like "icôNES" and I got downvoted to death!
Often times, I don't find all the icons I need in one icon package. I wish there was a way to find icons of various sources (and thus, various styles) and make them more consistent to be used in a program.
Kind of in the similar vein: https://iconify.design/
It is a re-presentation of the same collection. These are marvels of collaboration.
This is actually the same collection of icons, just a different interface.
Bookmarking this. Thanks for sharing.
Reminds me of this showcase of fonts:
https://www.programmingfonts.org/
I think this one's the same with https://icones.netlify.app/
They are both running the same software, https://github.com/antfu-collective/icones
Note: this is unrelated to the Nintendo Entertainment System. It's just a collection of open-source vector icon sets.
awesome, i've totally run into the search problem too - always annoys me when the icon names barely match what i need. you ever wonder if icons could just fade out someday and well just rely on smarter search instead?
Curious why the french word ? Is the author francophone ?
Considering Anthony Fu is behind it, it aligns nicely with the Vue ecosystem naming (Vite, Vitesse, Histoire etc)
I have tango icon theme burned into my retinas
my go to source for the last 2 years
These look great. Thanks for sharing.
The capitalisation in the HN item is wrong, it should just be "Icônes". It's just the French word for icons, nothing fancy.
I honestly thought it was a new emulator for the Nintendo Entertainment System.