why does the svg pattern deviate from google/material-designs

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why does the svg pattern deviate from google/material-designs

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 3 comments

i.e. action/label_outline/materialiconstwotone/

several icons are missing likely having different pattern is making harder to match what google has in latest

Answer 1 · 2021-12-07T19:30:02.000Z

This package only includes icons listed on https://fonts.google.com/icons. The icon label_outline might have been removed from that page as the label icon with outlined style is identical to it. It can be located at outlined/label.svg in the current package.

With the current directory structure users don't have to remember the category name of an icon to find its path. For example, in official repo you need to know that label icon is part of action category to know its full path. But in the current repo you can locate it directly at outlined/label.svg or two-tone/label.svg. Also this way all SVG files are grouped by style. The readme explains how to find the path of an icon. You can also search the icon name on demo page and hover over the icon to see its path.

Answer 2 · 2021-12-08T17:45:32.000Z

this was added in summer of 2020 material-design-icons/24px.svg at master · google/material-design-icons (github.com)<https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/blob/master/src/action/eco/materialicons/24px.svg> searching for it on demo page doesn't come up your demo page but now I see it is not on fonts.google.com/icons it's SVG only That's just one example, Thanks for this repo BTW, it's awesome and very much needed, since Google doesn't update theirs for quite some time

Answer 3 · 2021-12-13T19:44:48.000Z

That icon might have been listed on fonts site previously and got removed later. The official repo might not be deleting icons that are removed from fonts site. Since the current repo was created few months ago it won't have any of the old icons that are not currently listed on fonts site.

Also currently this repo is in sync with fonts site—all icons listed on fonts site will be included and if an icon is removed from fonts site it will be deleted from the repo as well. In a future release (1.x) I might change this to not delete icons that are removed from fonts site but for now I want to keep it in sync with fonts site.