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Why & How I built css.gg - A life story.

Astrit on December 22, 2019

Ok, where do I start. First thanks to Peter Thaleikis for suggesting this. Second is not very technical. Third is personal. The why...
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Adam Crockett 🌀 • Edited

Normally I just don't get CSS icons, but when you present it like this, I think twice, that is the kind of reaction you could hope for on repeat. Congratulations on a job well done!

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Astrit

Thank you 🙏

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Adam Crockett 🌀

I'm actually building a language that could make use of this, bookmarked.

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Astrit

Wow, that is amazing 💪🙏

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Rasmus Schultz

Don't get me wrong, this project is insanely cool! ✌️

The only deterrent for me, is what if I need an icon that doesn't exist?

Normally, I would be able to cobble something together from exist SVGs pretty quick, but this? Not everyone has the skills and patience to do what you do with CSS. It's pretty amazing. But therefore also a bit scary 😉

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Cynthia 🏳️‍🌈 Sanchez

Hi Rasmus,

We've made a fully open-source icon set icons.eosdesignsystem.com/ and we're backed by a big community. Our icons are available in several formats: SVG, PNG, Font with ligatures, NPM, Ruby Gem.

I think CSS icons are amazing, but I suggest that you take a look at ours since they may fit your use case better in this case, plus, you can just get in touch with us and we will add the new icon you need in no time!

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Astrit

I agree with you is scary indeed, won't be able to cover very much, but I could up to 500 and 90 on the making. If you have something specific let me know and I will add to the list if doable with current resources.

Thing is I do not except people to include this in a corporate project , but portfolios and smaller projects.

Thank for the feedback any ways.

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Kenny Whyte

Great job! It's a really good website. I will have to bookmark and use it in one of my projects.

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Astrit

Thanks, let me know if you do will share it.

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Kenny Whyte

Will do.

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gkTim

Very well done. Looks stunning.
It’s simply awesome what you can do with css these days. Keep up the good work.

And the code is a very good inspiration. Learned a few things while looking through it.

Will use it in my current free time project. An Anime Watch List written in Ionic with a GraphQL API :)

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Adithya Sreyaj

Looks awesome🤩

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Peter Klein

Very cool. I will give it a try and use it in my current Project. Thanks Mate

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Jose Nario

Not only truly impressive, but inspirational in its execution. Congratulations on your success.

Would love to see more of this hand-crafted attention applied to what has become an internet of bloat.

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Brandon Edwards

Normally I've just used fontawesome. But these are just amazing. Definitely being used 🙂

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Astrit

I am very grateful, thank you.

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G.V.S Akhil

wow its very inspiring. I should also give a try :)

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Seanmclem • Edited

I would love more filetype icons. For programming languages..

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Astrit

I am working on 90+ icons that will be launched on next version, so please let me know which languages you think would be good to cover.

How ever if you have a sample in mind let me know they need to be as minimal as possible.

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Lucca Biagi de Paula Prado

Hey Man, Congratulations!!! I really liked this.

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Johnson

nice, amazing.

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