The site is broken for me on Safari (Mac), works in Chrome.
Seems like a lot of trademark infringement suits about to come their way. Am I mistaken or is there no way this viable? In addition, nobody has any legal right to put others trademarks (use these) on anything without the trademark owners permission. So even if the site and distribution is somehow OK, nobody can really use them anyway. Right?
I'm not sure if simply offering a brand's logo would be trademark infringement.
Years ago someone contacted me at the company I worked for claiming in some sorta pseudo legal language that we couldn't have one of our competitor's logos on our website. We had it on a promotional page comparing features across similar products.
Turns out we can do that in the US.
Font Awesome been available since 2013 at least, featuring brand icons https://web.archive.org/web/20130608045113/http://fontawesom...
Seems fine
I always assumed Font Awesome had some business agreement with those orgs eventually as font awesome did charge for some of their icons IIRC.
Having said that, I'm not sure even that is legally necessary.
These and others have been online for a while, so I doubt it. There's more here, under the Brands / Social category: https://icones.js.org/
Yes, there are ways someone could use them that would not only run afoul of the trademark, but have trademark holders come after them. However, that doesn't make this useless, because there are proper and gray-area uses of these as well.
Supplying the assets is not a problem. Most stock art orgs have brands. I suspect that they can get into "gray areas," if they charge for it.
Using them is the problematic part.
They probably each carry their own licensing and terms of use. I'd suspect there's a good number where reuse in some situations would be permitted, and in others would not. But every single one is going to be different, and just making assumptions is a quick way to blindly assume enormous legal liability.
I assume most brands are happy to see their icons being used/shared on as many platforms as possible. It's just free advertisment.
If someone uses them in a context that's actually problematic for the brand, the brand can still sue them then. But that won't be the common case.
You can usually use the assets which are available on the official website, example for meta it is https://about.meta.com/brand/resources/facebook/logo/.
If you see the official logo it has different colors than the one provided in the website, so you can't that for production use cases.
It has existed for years and they actively remove icons when they get a takedown request. I'm sure most companies other than Oracle are happy to be there.
I find it amusing because in the past, I would have used this to find the logo of the company that I'd work for at the time.
I wonder how many employees of said brands will use this rather than their corporate environment to find an svg asset!
Don't tell the guy who paid $70k for icons about this!
Came here for this comment.
I did not expect to see AEW (All Elite Wrestling) on the list.
Automatic like for including Beekeeper Studio :-D.
Just what I needed today. Thank you!
Alternatively: https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons
Doesn't have Grindr, disappointing.