Mono Icons
Creative
icon set
SHOW HN2020
333points
58comments
#117of 3,028 in 2020
Top 4%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
12 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 5 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score +0.24.
Design: 6 for, 2 againstIdea: 3 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, simple and consistent design
From 4 comments
They look good, but my feedback is... why? There are hundred of mono icon packs around there. What's special about these ones? The SVGs use 5 decimal places of precision. That's…
edent on HNThey're simple, clean, unified, and I love the license. Nice work! Going to pass this along to the designers so they know it's an option.
Brendinooo on HNI like these a lot. Simple clean, clear. Thanks for sharing. Also want to add https://thenounproject.com/ to the comments here. I'm not affiliated. It's not great for finding…
intrepidhero on HNThats as clean as it gets. I like it!
lbj on HN
Permissive MIT license appreciated
From 3 comments
They look good, but my feedback is... why? There are hundred of mono icon packs around there. What's special about these ones? The SVGs use 5 decimal places of precision. That's…
edent on HNThey're simple, clean, unified, and I love the license. Nice work! Going to pass this along to the designers so they know it's an option.
Brendinooo on HNThanks for releasing these under a permissive license (though you might consider dual licensing under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) as well). There are a few icons oddly…
webmaven on HN
Open-sourcing good design is appreciated
From 2 comments
Beautiful! Thanks for open-sourcing your art. This is not common, yet highly appreciated.
jakearmitage on HNWell, I like them a lot. It’s fine for people to ask why, but sometimes a project is just a project. Or maybe you wanted them for yourself and decided to be kind and open them up…
fredleblanc on HN
Objections
Too many similar icon packs; unclear what is special
From 3 comments
They look good, but my feedback is... why? There are hundred of mono icon packs around there. What's special about these ones? The SVGs use 5 decimal places of precision. That's…
edent on HNPretty cool, but looks very similar to many other libraries like [1] bytesize-icons. What i'd like to see in an icon library is a huge range of icons, and the ability to tweak…
gitgud on HNi don't get it... there are 136 icons in this pack vs fontawesome 5 having 1600. is there a huge reason for using this vs fontawesome? also... fontawesome seems to be the…
thrownaway954 on HN
SVGs have excessive decimal precision and could be optimized
From 2 comments
They look good, but my feedback is... why? There are hundred of mono icon packs around there. What's special about these ones? The SVGs use 5 decimal places of precision. That's…
edent on HNThey're nice icons. Two points of feedback - embedding a fill color on a path in the SVG makes it a pain to override with CSS. Also, picking a random one, moon, and running it…
onion2k on HN
Some icons look too similar at small sizes or render blurry
From 2 comments
Well, I like them a lot. It’s fine for people to ask why, but sometimes a project is just a project. Or maybe you wanted them for yourself and decided to be kind and open them up…
fredleblanc on HNYes, that's a really cool project and I'm glad there are talented people releasing stuff for free like this. But I also think they didn't look very sharp and clear on my 720p 15'…
farias0 on HN
Requests
Add missing icons such as record, volume-down, cut and paste
From 1 comment
Thanks for releasing these under a permissive license (though you might consider dual licensing under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) as well). There are a few icons oddly…
webmaven on HN
Provide source files, not only exported shapes
From 2 comments
Is it really open source? The files on Github look like they’re exported from something, so surely there is an actual source file that you didn’t include?
tobr on HNCurious why this would be downvoted, is it strange to expect access to source files when a project claims to be open source? Or am I missing where to find the source files? I…
tobr on HN
Dual license under CC-BY as well
From 1 comment
Thanks for releasing these under a permissive license (though you might consider dual licensing under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) as well). There are a few icons oddly…
webmaven on HN
Questions
Is the project really open source without source files?
From 1 comment
Is it really open source? The files on Github look like they’re exported from something, so surely there is an actual source file that you didn’t include?
tobr on HN
What makes this set different from existing icon packs?
From 2 comments
They look good, but my feedback is... why? There are hundred of mono icon packs around there. What's special about these ones? The SVGs use 5 decimal places of precision. That's…
edent on HNi don't get it... there are 136 icons in this pack vs fontawesome 5 having 1600. is there a huge reason for using this vs fontawesome? also... fontawesome seems to be the…
thrownaway954 on HN
Alternatives named
Font Awesome
From 2 comments
i don't get it... there are 136 icons in this pack vs fontawesome 5 having 1600. is there a huge reason for using this vs fontawesome? also... fontawesome seems to be the…
thrownaway954 on HNFontawesome licensing is incompatible with a lot of commercial use, eg, as soon as you have a CMS end-users post comments etc on, even though the intent was pay-per-designer+dev,…
lmeyerov on HN
Material Icons
From 1 comment
https://mono.company/design/introducing-mono-icons/ I just read through their announcement and it seems reasonable, material icons are overused and OSS icons available don't…
reader_mode on HN
Fork Awesome
From 1 comment
There's also ForkAwesome[1] which has 744 icons. My main gripe with many icon sets that they often miss an icon or two kinda breaking the set, with fork awesome I hadn't had that…
wraptile on HN
The Noun Project
From 2 comments
I like these a lot. Simple clean, clear. Thanks for sharing. Also want to add https://thenounproject.com/ to the comments here. I'm not affiliated. It's not great for finding…
intrepidhero on HNYou might want to put these on nounproject.com, where people can find them and you'll get royalties for their use.
bobm_kite9 on HN
Remix Icon and Feather Icons
From 1 comment
These look good. Good to see more open-source icon sets (like https://remixicon.com/ & https://feathericons.com/). I'm getting overwhelmed by the amount of different sets…
chrisma0 on HN