You need to strip trailing spaces. My first search for "firewall " surprisingly produced 0 results - when I noticed I had inadvertently added a space (well I think autocomplete did) and resubmitted, I got a more pleasing 13 results.
Similarly I am using https://mdisearch.com to find mdi icons. It is made for developers and integrates Algolia to find icons with synonyms (looking for "user" returns "account" icon) which is very convenient.
Generally, I've always just stuck with whatever was the recommended set of icons (and the way to use them) with whatever front end solution I might have been working with.
But at the same time it's really cool to be able to find custom icons easily and combine whatever you need yourself, even though I wouldn't trust myself to produce anything consistent and coherent like that.
The search could improve a little. Now it looks like icon_name.includes(search_text) and generates either too much or nothing at all.
There are numerous ways to improve it, but the least effort would be to split search_text by whitespace and and-filter by these words (wrt boundaries!).
I've been using a similar site called icones.js.org that also lets you search the Iconify library, but Iconhunt is better in one critical way: It lets you search by keyword on its homepage, instead of having to click a search icon first.
Any suggestion on how to improve the search results?
I could try to improve the search by allowing space and use that as an operator, eg AND or OR.
Any other ideas?
How do I know for sure they are free in the sense that I can use them in a book cover, broadcast television, print magazines? My advice is, always modify the icons a little yourself.
That's not enough! You can't circumvent license requirements by modifying an icon, the same way you can't ignore codebase licenses by modifying the code.
The codebase example is worryingly common though, I have had countless colleagues try and modify a piece of code they found and include it in their PRs without adhering to the license.
As long as there are no patents or trademarks, I don't think you can argue much for copyright of a similarly looking icon say of a football. It's an icon, not a logo. Logos would be trademarked. But I am not a lawyer.
>> It is important to note that if the icon is a standard symbol or image that is commonly used in a particular industry or field, it may be difficult to claim copyright protection. Additionally, if the icon is a functional element, such as an icon that is necessary for the operation of a software program, it may not be eligible for copyright protection.
I don't think your reasoning is safe at all. I'm obviously also not a lawyer, but when doing commercial work it's better to assume everything is copyrighted unless explicitly otherwise mentioned.
