Re:GitHub Octicons
by daxelrod on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:57PM
(#7900792)
SIL OFL licence[1] for the icons themselves.
This is exciting news! When GitHub originally announced Octicons, many people on HN[2] wished that they were open for general use rather than just for GitHub.
They don't mention this on the page, but this is an icon font (like FontAwesome). The zip includes CSS/SCSS referencing the ttf, svg, woff and eot files.
Re:GitHub Octicons
by qnaal on Monday June 16, 2014 @09:26PM
(#7902403)
damn I thought it said 'GitHub Octocoins'
BEEN SMOKIN TOO MUCH BITCOINS
On a more related note, how do you people feel about the 'ordered list' icon having more lines than numbers, and the 'podium' icon looking like a drinking fountain?
This is exciting news! When GitHub originally announced Octicons, many people on HN[2] wished that they were open for general use rather than just for GitHub.
1: https://github.com/github/octicons/blob/master/LICENSE.txt 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3949489
Step 1: Download SVG from https://github.com/github/octicons/tree/master/svg
Step 2: Use http://www.fileformat.info/convert/image/svg2raster.htm
Step 3: ...
Step 4: Profit!
Released under MIT + Open Font License
1: https://github.com/blog/1851-octicons-for-everyone
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/0bd2c6fb5e42bfb5cacc
BEEN SMOKIN TOO MUCH BITCOINS
On a more related note, how do you people feel about the 'ordered list' icon having more lines than numbers, and the 'podium' icon looking like a drinking fountain?