Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

Re:Devicons, an iconic font made for developers by adamgravitis on Friday July 18, 2014 @09:33AM (#8052901)

"an iconic font made for developers, code jedis, ninjas, HTTPsters, evangelists and nerds."

Urgh. Why do people do this?

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Re:Devicons, an iconic font made for developers by vorillaz on Friday July 18, 2014 @12:27PM (#8053891)

I thought that would be a good catchphrase to grab some attention. My apologies.

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Re:Devicons, an iconic font made for developers by mikeleeorg on Friday July 18, 2014 @01:14PM (#8054242)

I thought it was pretty funny. It seemed absurd enough that I thought it was totally tongue-in-cheek.

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Re:Devicons, an iconic font made for developers by ToastyMallows on Friday July 18, 2014 @09:46AM (#8052961)

I read this as more of a tounge-in-cheek joke about people who do this, but I may be wrong.

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Re:Devicons, an iconic font made for developers by pilsetnieks on Friday July 18, 2014 @10:17AM (#8053133)

They forgot rockstars.

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Re:Devicons, an iconic font made for developers by msane on Friday July 18, 2014 @12:14PM (#8053818)

They aren't just vectorizing other peoples logos and calling it an iconset. They're "sampling" other peoples logos, in a hip hop sense.

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