From the course: Creating Web Icons with SVG

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Where to get existing SVG icons

Where to get existing SVG icons

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Where to get existing SVG icons

- [Voiceover] Once you've decided to adorn your web project with beautiful SVGs, the next obvious question is "Where do I get them?" Of course, you could create some SVGs yourself, but that's not always an option, and in many cases, you're actually better off using SVGs someone else has created and shared. This is especially true if you want to use social media icons anywhere in your project. So let's take a quick look at some sites that serve up high-quality SVGs for you to use. First up is IcoMoon. This is the service I'll be using in this course. IcoMoon is an app that allows you to combine icons from a long list of popular icon libraries, including Octicons, and Typo, Font Awesome, Material icons, Iconic, and so on. The great thing about this service is it allows you to download your icons as either SVGs and PNGs or icon fonts, so even though Font Awesome is an icon font, because it's included inside IcoMoon, you can download the Font Awesome icons as SVGs. Using IcoMoon, you can…

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