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astrit/css.gg

astrit/css.gg

500+ CSS Icons. Customizable, Retina Ready with API & NPM

repo name astrit/css.gg
repo link https://github.com/astrit/css.gg
homepage https://css.gg
language CSS
size (curr.) 332 kB
stars (curr.) 2681
created 2019-10-01
license MIT License

css.gg

Minimalistic Icon library Designed by code.
Customizable & Retina-Ready icons entirely built in CSS.

Demo: https://css.gg ― Twitter: https://twitter.com/AstritMalsija ― Donate: https://github.com/sponsors/astrit

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css.gg

Features

  1. API endpoint
  2. Lightweight
  3. Accessible
  4. Agile
  5. Retina Ready
  6. Compilable

Getting started

Access all the icons as package:

Name Source
CLI npm i -S css.gg
CSS https://css.gg/c
JSON https://css.gg/json
XML https://css.gg/xml

This package CDN alternatives

JSON
https://unpkg.com/css.gg
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/css.gg

CSS
https://unpkg.com/css.gg/icons-compressed/icons.css
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/css.gg/icons-compressed/icons.css

XML
https://unpkg.com/css.gg/icons-xml/icons.xml
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/css.gg/icons-xml/icons.xml

Add icons in your project

1. Markup

The class name starts always with “gg-” followed by icon name.

<i class="gg-icon-name"></i>
Resizing

To resize an icon you just need to change the value of a css variable “–ggs” to any value you like if not specified it falls back to 1 or the actual size.

.gg-icon-name {
    /* This value will multiple the actual size  */
    --ggs: 10;
}

The variable can be added to the parent, custom class,body or root level if you want all icons same size.

:root {

    --ggs: 6;

}

2. Style

HTML
<!-- Uncompressed - Single Icon -->
<link href='https://css.gg/icon-name.css' rel='stylesheet'>

<!-- Compressed - Single Icon -->
<link href='https://css.gg/c?=|icon-name' rel='stylesheet'>

<!-- Multiple icons  -->
<link href='https://css.gg/c?=|icon-name|icon-name|icon-name' rel='stylesheet'>

<!-- All icons  -->
<link href='https://css.gg/c' rel='stylesheet'>
CSS
/* Uncompressed - Single icon */
@import url('https://css.gg/icon-name.css');

/* Compressed - Single icon*/
@import url('https://css.gg/c?=|icon-name');

/* Multiple icons */
@import url('https://css.gg/c?=|icon-name|icon-name|icon-name');

/* All icons */
@import url('https://css.gg/c');

API Reference

1. Access data on .json format

All data - Single Icon
https://css.gg/json?=|icon-name
All data - Multiple Icons
https://css.gg/json?=|icon-name|icon-name|icon-name

Return style & markup only

You need to specify in the end of url if you wish to pull only style or markup by using &op=css or &op=css+markup variables respectively.

e.g Single Icon

Style
https://css.gg/json?=|icon-name&op=css
Style & Markup
https://css.gg/json?=|icon-name&op=css+markup

e.g Multiple Icons

Style
https://css.gg/json?=|icon-name|icon-name|icon-name&op=css
Style & Markup
https://css.gg/json?=|icon-name|icon-name|icon-name&op=css+markup

2. Access data on .xml format

All the above options apply to xml format.

Donate

Source Link
Github Sponsor https://github.com/sponsors/astrit
Open Collective https://opencollective.com/css-gg

This project is sponsored by

SponsoredBy.dev

Support

  1. FAQ - https://css.gg/faq
  2. Discord - https://discord.gg/e7NDKFM
  3. Spectrum - https://spectrum.chat/css-gg
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