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i made some icons to help with a common issue (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by sixdripb to c/[email protected]

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https://gitlab.com/sxwpb/minimal-tux-icons

These are only meant to help for cases where the full tux is too detailed to display, see examples in the linked README. But the shape also works well for single fill cases, like in the keychain example. I wouldn't want these to be used when the full tux could be displayed in all its glory instead.

~~One issue I have is I do not know how to license these properly, I wouldn't want them to show up in a trademarked logo or anything, but I would still want them to be freely usable as tux icons anywhere. What do you think?~~

I have chosen the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, thank you for helping me!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Very nice icon, would you consider contributing it to font-logos project (where a lot of FOSS projects logos are, including Tux) that is used on nerd-fonts so people can use it on their terminals? Nice to see SolveSpace being used for it. Edit: Fix typo.

[–] sixdripb 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

oh yea that would be cool, let me see if i can do it

[–] sixdripb 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I will wait for the license issue to resolve, seems better?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Sure no problem, I'm still not 100% how to proceed, I hope in any case it get resolved before new NF release.

[–] sixdripb 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

aw I missed the release. maybe we can get it in for the fall release. ( personally I would prefer to get it in under the right license, than in a new one or in a grey-area). thanks for reaching out back then, it would be crazy to me if people had access to this icon in neovim etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm still figuring out some things and also have been busy, eventually should be done.

[–] sixdripb 1 points 7 months ago

no problem at all, I will try to get it in whenever it is solved, I’m in no hurry :) thx

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