#3574 - Social Icon SVG's (For Member Profiles)

By Adam Edington
Added 1st Apr 2018, 9:06 PM
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Identifier	#3574
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Social Icon SVG's (For Member Profiles)
Status	Closed (rejected)
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	core
Description	Came across this project @ https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons and thought it might take some overhead away from the devs here. I have already requested the v11 icons I couldn't find there to be added. The current coloured Composr SVG's are probably great for the Share bar, but I figured if end users want to add additional services on the member profile it is likely the icon exists in this project already (and new requests can be made on the Issues tab if not). They also have all the background colours defined for each icon on the main website @ https://simpleicons.org/ Just an idea, trying to help :)
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By Guest posted 1st Apr 2018, 9:13 PM

Also worth mentioning that the steemit.svg currently in v11 is the icon for steem.io. The icon for steemit.com has been requested here @ https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/issues/799

By Guest posted 4th Apr 2018, 8:06 PM

Regarding the SteemIt icon - thanks, we'll get that fixed.

By Guest posted 4th Apr 2018, 8:08 PM

We're doing our own icons so we have consistency across the whole set, and also so we have our own feel to things.

We actually are now also doing white/black versions of each icon too, for additional design flexibility (Salman specifically has plans for them).

Anyone can add new icons though, so long as they can find something matching our design style. For the new CPF system, you can add a theme image for the icon, then add a CPF to reference that theme image and specify where on the profile page it shows and what HTML to use to lay it out. So I think you'll be happy with that.

By Guest posted 4th Apr 2018, 9:23 PM

Fair enough and yeah that all sounds great. I keep trying to sneak a peek at v11 but the installer fails on addons :P Hopefully soon...

By Guest posted 6th Apr 2018, 3:09 AM

I notice they are doing something with aria, which I believe Composr supports. I have no idea how useful this is to screenreaders but thought I'd mention it in case it's useful.

<svg aria-labelledby="simpleicons-500px-icon" role="img" ...

By Guest, By Guest, posted 6th Apr 2018, 9:43 AM

Don't know why they're doing that, a standard <img> tag has worked for SVG since IE9, and has an 'alt' attribute.
It's debatable if you would even want to label an icon though, as it's purpose is typically completely visual. If it's a linked icon then the <a> tag has a title attribute to use.