Proposals for a few new icons

[krogsgard]

I run into situations sometimes where I realize Genericons gets me 90% there but not quite. Here are a couple icons I've recently needed that I think there is good use case for and shouldn't be that hard:

• Blogger (I know it's old but it's a big service and I needed it recently).
• Right and Left variants of "Expand" and "Collapse" as an alternate arrow style. Very common icon -- currently not supported in Genericons without lame CSS changes to other icons. (I'd also consider renaming these to angle or chevron and creating alias for the old)
• Comment bubble - like "Chat" but solo
• Youtube alternate - the Youtube icon is the play button but a more traditional variant would be helpful: see FontAwesome's for reference
• Forward - there is a Reply icon but not a Forward icon
• Credit card - there are lots of potential credit card icons, but at least a generic one would be helpful
• Quote alternate - I know it may be tough to mesh w/ the overall icon set style, but a more rounded quote alternative would be nice

I'm sure there are many others, but these are some based on my personal experiences plus a tiny bit of extra looking around.

[krogsgard]

just realized solo chat does exist, it's just out of order. ignore that one

[jasmussen]

Some good ideas here, thanks for your suggestions. I like "credit card" and "forward" in particular.

Creating Genericons has been a learning experience which has taught a couple of lessons. The chief benefit that it was easy to re-color icons in CSS. One of the downsides is the fact that the icon set becomes a single file, so even if your entire website uses only a few of the icons included, the entire set is loaded for the site, including all the unused ones.

For that reason, the future direction of Genericons is unlikely to be that of FontAwesome or other excellent and far more expansive icon sets. Rather, Genericons will ideally be a streamlined nice little generic set of useful icons, and perhaps there will be a bunch of forks and alternate versions of the font for people who need more or less.

Specifically that means we're now focusing on open sourcing Genericons and enabling such forks. That also means we're particularly selective with adding new ones, and with the most recent update we chose to draw a line in the sand with regards to adding new logos (#54).

The next version of Genericons will hopefully release with:

• SVG source files for all icons
• a FontCustom manifest file which allows users to build and compile Genericons themselves
• a couple of example builds, for example one version with no logos at all, one with only logos

Hopefully emphasizing the open source aspect of Genericons will be able to satisfy users who need a different set of icons than those part of the core set.

[kailee73]

Adding xing would be great (www.xing.de) It's the German Linkedin version...
Thanks Kailee

[k999]

hi may i propose academia.edu and prezi please. thanks

[YogieAnamCara]

Yes please add my vote for Xing as well please! (www.xing.com)

I also want to see more photo sharing sites like 500px

[jasmussen]

I'm afraid we won't be adding more social icons, please see #54.

[chantalcoolsma]

Would love to see services as Strava, MyFitnessPal and RunKeeper.

[jasmussen]

Noting down a couple of the originally suggested icons for a future revision, but closing this thread for comments otherwise, as we won't be adding more logos.