Icon request: circles-[intersect/union/subtract/exclude]

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Icon request: circles-[intersect/union/subtract/exclude] #20203

Open thatcort opened 3 months ago

thatcort commented 3 months ago

Can we please improve the Venn icons?

Can we please add a Union icon to go with the Intersection Icon?
Can we please change the intersection icon with the solid filled intersection area to be horizontal instead of tilted (like the intersection icon with the hatched lines)?

The original request for Venn diagram icons had a good example of a union icon: #2164

Thank you!

P.S. The "difference" icon in #2164 would also be great!

tagliala commented 3 months ago

Hi!

Thanks for being part of the Font Awesome Community.

Sorry, I can't understand if this is:

a request to fix an existing icon
a request to add three new icons, representing (circles-)intersection, (circles-)union, and (circles-)difference (like circles-overlap, with circles on the same line)

thatcort commented 3 months ago

Hi @tagliala, sorry if that wasn't clear.

Request #2164 asked for intersection, union and difference icons, but we ended up instead with multiple intersection variants:

So the primary request here is to add the union and difference icons.

The secondary request is to improve the existing icons: diagram-venn is horizontal but uses hatched lines for the intersection area; circles-overlap uses a solid fill for the intersection area but is tilted. Could we please have a horizontal version that uses a solid fill? That probably means changing circles-overlap to be horizontal.

Hopefully this clarified things, but I'm happy to try again if not.

Thanks again!

sensibleworld commented 2 weeks ago

@thatcort Do our object- icons work for you in this case? https://fontawesome.com/search?q=object-&o=r&s=solid

thatcort commented 2 weeks ago

They convey the right concepts, but look very similar to the clone icon: https://fontawesome.com/search?q=clone&o=r&s=solid

sensibleworld commented 2 weeks ago

Okay, so I think what might make sense is to make a new series of circle-based icons that mimic the intersect/overlap/etc states of the object- icons, and leave our current Venn diagram icon as-is. That icon, in particular, is meant to convey "venn diagrams" as a whole (and was part of a collection of sponsored data and graph-related icons). We may update circles-overlap to be part of this, and will consider moving things to horizontal.