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Icon Request: Go language icon (actually, two) #41

Open GwynethLlewelyn opened 3 years ago

GwynethLlewelyn commented 3 years ago

Hello,

While I have no idea if Elusive Icons is still being maintained (no activity since 2015; some icons are for services that don't exist any more, such as Google+; the CDN link is dead; etc.), here is my suggestion: add an icon for the Go programming language.

The Go language has two icons, the 'official logo' and the 'mascot' (a cute gopher designed by Renée French and free to use in relation to the Go language). Unfortunately, it's not that easy to find good SVGs for the mascot, but at least the official logo has its own media page.

I did manage to find an SVG of the mascot, which is attached below. Because GitHub does not allow direct SVG uploads, I had to place it inside a ZIP file. It looks like this:

golang-horizontal

(the lettering 'Go' with the swish lines were early logo design attempts, but since then, these were abandoned in favour of the new logo design, as per the brand page mentioned earlier)

Here goes the zipped SVG for download: golang-horizontal.svg.zip

dovy commented 3 years ago

That's a great idea. I actually do want to do more with it, I've just been sitting it on the backend. If anyone wants to contribute for a more automated build process I am more than willing. I'd love to keep adding icons to Elusive. :)

GwynethLlewelyn commented 3 years ago

@dovy, I'm so glad to hear that you're still around! 🥰 To be honest, I've just stumbled upon Elusive Icons today when installing Redux for a customer's site (which is based on Bootstrap). I've found the icons really quite good (they're even stackable! yay!), and I was wondering if I couldn't just drop Font Awesome (which doesn't have the Go language icon, either) and use Elusive Icons instead, since it has most of the icons I need anyway...