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GitHub Octicons (octicons.github.com)
89 points by andrewnez on June 16, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


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.

1: https://github.com/github/octicons/blob/master/LICENSE.txt 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3949489


Want them as PNG?

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!


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.

Released under MIT + Open Font License


The blog post [1] mentions that it's an icon font.

1: https://github.com/blog/1851-octicons-for-everyone


A list of the icons sorted by their names:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/0bd2c6fb5e42bfb5cacc


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?




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