BoxIcons

High Quality web friendly icons

'Boxicons' is a carefully designed open source iconset with 700+ icons. It's crafted to look enrich your website/app experience.

Announcing Boxicons v1.5.4!

Load the icons as web component , load only the icons you need .

Installation

To install via npm, simply do the following:

$ npm install boxicons --save

import the module

import 'boxicons/dist/boxicons.js';

Usage

Using via CSS

Include the stylesheet on your document's <head>

<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="boxicons.min.css">
</head>

Instead of installing you may use the remote version

<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/boxicons@latest/css/boxicons.min.css">
  <!-- or -->
  <link rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://unpkg.com/boxicons@latest/css/boxicons.min.css">
</head>

To use an icon on your page, add a class 'bx' and seperate class with the icons name with a prefix 'bx-' for regular icons , 'bxs-' for solid icons and 'bxl-' for logos:

<i class="bx bx-hot"></i>
<i class="bx bxs-hot"></i>
<i class="bx bxl-facebook-square"></i>

Using via Web Component

Boxicons includes a Custom Element that makes using icons easy and efficient. To use it, add the box-icon-element.js file to the page:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/boxicons@latest/dist/box-icon-element.js"></script>

To use an icon, add the <box-icon> element to the location where the icon should be displayed:

<box-icon name="hot"></box-icon>

To use solid icons or logos add attribute type as solid or logo

<box-icon name="hot" type="solid"></box-icon>
<box-icon name="facebook-square" type="logo"></box-icon>

The <box-icon> custom element supports the following attributes:

<box-icon
    name="adjust|alarms|etc...."
    color="blue|red|etc..."
    size="xs|sm|md|lg|cssSize"
    rotate="90|180|270"
    flip="horizontal|vertical"
    border="square|circle"
    animation="spin|tada|etc..."
    type = "regular|solid|logo"
    pull = "left|right"
></box-icon>

name : (REQUIRED) the name of the icon to be displayed
color: A color for the icon.
size: The size for the icon. It supports one of two types of values:
- One of the followign shortcuts: xs, sm, md, lg
- A css unit size (ex. 60px)
rotate: one of the following values: 90, 180, 270
flip: one of the following values: horizontal, vertical
border: one of the following values: square, circle
animation: One of the following values: spin, tada, flashing, burst, fade-left, fade-right, spin-hover, tada-hover, flashing-hover, burst-hover, fade-left-hover, fade-right-hover
type: one of the following values: regular,solid, logo
pull: one of the following values: left,right The Custom Element class (BoxIconElement) exposes the following static members:
tagName: property that holds the HTML element tag name. Default: box-icon
defined([tagName]): Defines the Element in the custom element registry using either the tagName provided on input or the (default) the one defined on the Class.
cdnUrl: property that holds the URL that will be used to retrieve the images. URL should point to the folder that contains the images. example: //unpkg.com/boxicons@1.5.2/svg (no trailing forward slash)
getIconSvg(iconName): method used to retrieve the SVG image. Should return a Promise that resolves with the SVG source (String).

Check out all the icons here!

License

You can read the license here!

Contributing

Pull requests are the way to go here. I apologise in advance for the slow action on pull requests and issues.

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