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Icon Request: icon-ebook (generic) #2356

Open saltedlolly opened 10 years ago

saltedlolly commented 10 years ago

I'm a big fan of font awesome, but recently I found a use case it couldn't help me with.

I would really like to see a set of icons created for different types of books. This way when when creating links for a book from a website, it gives people an easy way to highlight the different editions available.

Examples:

gquipster commented 9 years ago

+1

olololox commented 9 years ago

+1

Casara commented 9 years ago

+1

QWp6t commented 9 years ago

:+1:

tagliala commented 9 years ago

This request does not meet our contributing guidelines anymore: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#requesting-new-icons

Please do not request comprehensive sets of icons related to a very specific field.

I'm leaving this open for tracking purposes, but I should advise you to consider a custom build if you need those icons in a short while, sorry!

fabiograsso commented 9 years ago

+1

maggie-hasegawa commented 8 years ago

+1

olya-gary commented 8 years ago

+1

olya-gary commented 8 years ago

just read the @tagliala comments ("Please do not request comprehensive sets of icons related to a very specific field.") Wondering why? - not enough resources to cover everything?

However, books, in my opinion, is not a "very specific field" as they are everywhere. I'm in the medical library and we would love to have those icons so our users - in medicine can easier recognize what's available. Would you please reconsider the 'book' icons? thank you

tagliala commented 8 years ago

@olya-gary

comprehensive requests like this one are hard to implement manage.

Given that a generic web application would benefit of an ebook icon, adding 11 icons only to represent e-books could be considered beyond the scope of this project

The best solution is a custom build: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/wiki/Customize-Font-Awesome

btw some popular requests like #492 and #2148 were included in the set.

gquipster commented 8 years ago

From the perspective of those of us in the printing/publishing industry these would be EXTREMELY useful.

da-benny commented 8 years ago

+1

RichardAlbary commented 8 years ago

+1

DeNelo commented 7 years ago

+1

koimad commented 7 years ago

+1

fmorato commented 7 years ago

+1

brianmcmichael commented 5 years ago

+1

jenstroeger commented 5 years ago

I am not sure about a generic “ebook” icon, but the above list of devices and their supported file formats may need some clarification.

I think that “ebook” is often depicted by the “EPUB file format” icon, i.e. this one:

(source)

but without the ePUB below the logo. However, this would also warrant renaming the icon to icon-epub considering that there are other “ebook” file formats around (e.g. .mobi for Kindle, etc. although I would not consider .pdf an ebook file format).

Also, as a comment on issue https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/7095: the icons requested in that issue are about ebook reading apps/devices which is different than ebook file formats. These app/device related icons are addressed by issues https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/14127 & https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/15290 (Nook, supports EPUB); https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/13659 (Kobo, supports EPUB); or https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/2113 and https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/3288 (Kindle, supports MOBI and compatibles).

@tagliala, any thoughts on the timeline here? This particular request #2356 seems a bit unclear but it would be great to see progress on the ebook file formats icons (i.e. EPUB), as well the ebook reading devices (e.g. Nook, Kobo, Kindle, …).

HannayAndy commented 4 years ago

+1

JacobDB commented 2 years ago

I'd also like to see this, a generic icon kind of like this one:

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sensibleworld commented 1 month ago

This is a quick update to let folks know that we’re refining our icon request workflow behind the scenes, and as part of that we’re going through all open requests and filing them into several new buckets to be addressed.

In this case we’ve added this issue to our new list to be created! We can’t promise any firm timelines right now, but this will help us keep track of it.

We’ll update this issue when the icon is released into the wild 🙂