Font-awesome: Icon Request: icon-goodreads [will be available in Font Awesome 5]
I'd like to link my profile on Goodreads from my blog and as I already use your icons, it'd be great if you could include their icon in it...
I think it would be good to make two versions - first one just of the black "g", second one inverted ("g" on black background).
Thank you in advance.
ivafrydkova
All 176 comments
I agree about adding it to the stack, but for the moment, you can cheat. I did it like this:
<span class="icon-stack">
<i class="icon-sign-blank icon-stack-base"></i>
<i class="icon-light"><span style="font-family:helvetica;">g</span></i>
</span>
You probably need to boost the font-size of the G up a little bit more, but you can get it to look pretty close with some more CSS.
sam327
on 14 Aug 2013
+1 for Goodreads
JayHoltslander
on 9 Sep 2013
+1
robertmarsal
on 13 Sep 2013
A native goodreads icon would be solid.
sajanp
on 18 Sep 2013
+1
@sam327 Thanks for the idea
ahmadajmi
on 4 Nov 2013
+1
boydm
on 9 Nov 2013
+1
igas
on 16 Nov 2013
+1
ranaramez
on 18 Nov 2013
+1
thehadeeryounis
on 18 Nov 2013
+1
sawtoothid
on 22 Nov 2013
+1
Snik4er
on 5 Dec 2013
+1.
I wanted to add that a second, alternative icon would be useful for Goodreads. It's common for people to use lowercase "gr", to further distinguish Goodreads from Google+. This comes into play sometimes, when the colors of the original logos are not in the design of the icon. I would love to see an alternative version as "gr". Thank you!
artmechanix
on 31 Dec 2013
+1
AnalogJ
on 9 Feb 2014
+1 as well but because my girlfriend wants it.
ernstae
on 30 Mar 2014
+1
iceydesigns
on 13 Apr 2014
+1
gaplauche
on 13 May 2014
+1 - I do quite a lot of work with authors and publishers, and Goodreads is an important social channel for them.
darrenturpin
on 19 May 2014
+1, although I'll be using sam327's workaround in the interim.
seanoldham
on 25 May 2014
+1
j1n6
on 29 May 2014
+1
benstewart
on 5 Jun 2014
+1
marcbertone
on 6 Jun 2014
+1
AgentEm
on 28 Jun 2014
+1
eeshan89
on 18 Jul 2014
+1
karlnippoldt
on 29 Jul 2014
+1
antigravity
on 10 Aug 2014
+1
enummela
on 22 Aug 2014
+1
JamesWhitman
on 4 Sep 2014
+1
jadeproulx
on 5 Sep 2014
+1
ghost
on 8 Sep 2014
+1
jgrahamthomas
on 11 Sep 2014
+1
aucrawford
on 18 Sep 2014
+1
jenniferlynparsons
on 27 Sep 2014
+1
bixfrankonis
on 22 Oct 2014
+1
seanthenderson
on 23 Oct 2014
+1
ghost
on 24 Oct 2014
+1
ryan-p-randall
on 25 Oct 2014
+1
Rebecca50
on 5 Nov 2014
+1
j1n6
on 5 Nov 2014
+1
johnmarinelli
on 18 Nov 2014
+1
Egga
on 19 Nov 2014
+1
alessandrococco
on 11 Dec 2014
+1
lauriemrauch
on 6 Jan 2015
+1
agaio
on 7 Jan 2015
+1
creativecatapps
on 14 Jan 2015
+1, how is this not added yet??
aandrezero
on 7 Feb 2015
:+1:
Amorymeltzer
on 19 Feb 2015
+1
BenSibley
on 20 Feb 2015
:+1:
colmarius
on 21 Feb 2015
+1
terrorbox
on 21 Feb 2015
We definitely need this one. :+1:
+1
inputsh
on 26 Feb 2015
:+1:
eenagy
on 27 Feb 2015
+1
jcontini
on 6 Mar 2015
+1
daveschumaker
on 26 Mar 2015
+1
gottarollwithit
on 28 Mar 2015
+1
Kassiah
on 11 Apr 2015
:+1:
almartin82
on 12 Apr 2015
+1 pleeeease!! :)
ryanchrys
on 22 Apr 2015
+1
labbydev
on 12 May 2015
+1
JacobDB
on 20 May 2015
+1
solraxy
on 23 May 2015
+1
MFIMichael
on 28 May 2015
+1
barefists
on 31 May 2015
+1
bonbonelan
on 1 Jun 2015
+1
juliemmh
on 9 Jun 2015
+1
waxcreative
on 18 Jun 2015
+1
jamercier
on 19 Jun 2015
+1
brikis98
on 19 Jun 2015
+1
utdemir
on 21 Jun 2015
+1
FriendlyWP
on 23 Jun 2015
+1
Hippo313
on 26 Jun 2015
+1
ghost
on 29 Jun 2015
+1
Just to add, the image in OP here isn't monotone as requested. So this is the image I found for my (accidental) duplicate (#6875):
OJFord
on 5 Jul 2015
+1
cbrokaw
on 7 Jul 2015
+1
sorenweite
on 8 Jul 2015
+1
iamfantastikate
on 18 Jul 2015
+1
chrysta460
on 21 Jul 2015
+1
mruwek
on 24 Jul 2015
+1
nickigreenwood
on 28 Jul 2015
+1
tvpham11
on 29 Jul 2015
+1
hasssan
on 29 Jul 2015
+1
carrieloves
on 30 Jul 2015
+1
samcunliffe
on 13 Aug 2015
+1
sengopal
on 19 Sep 2015
+1
zablotski
on 20 Sep 2015
+1
+1
+1
MohannadNajjar
on 27 Sep 2015
+1
RobertDiebels
on 2 Oct 2015
+1
legalalien37
on 25 Nov 2015
+1
PeterShaggyNoble
on 15 Dec 2015
:+1:
sgtFloyd
on 16 Dec 2015
+1
Kaymuhr
on 16 Dec 2015
+1
lynzt
on 29 Dec 2015
+1
aymericbeaumet
on 5 Jan 2016
+1
shiva
on 6 Jan 2016
+1
jeremygibbs
on 7 Jan 2016
+1 How is it that there are icons for so many obscure brands yet none for Goodreads?!
Lasoulane
on 9 Jan 2016
It is ridiculous that this list has been going on for over two years and still no icon for goodreads, yet they have all these icons for all these obscure things, the majority of which I have never even heard of...I will add my +1 here, although at this point it seems like an exercise in futility. I was told I could always edit and make my own, trust me, if I possessed the skills, I would be happy to do so and make a LOT of other people happy in the process...seriously, at this point I would almost be willing to pay for one !!
ghost
on 12 Jan 2016
Really though, isn't languishing in underdevelopment and lowered expectations the absolute essence of being a Goodreads user?
evnm
on 12 Jan 2016
per the creator of Font Awesome
"Icons are added by priority of how folks vote for it. Goodreads just didn't have enough votes to get added yet. You can add the icon yourself with Fort Awesome and get the best of all worlds.
Best,
-Dave Gandy"
ghost
on 15 Jan 2016
It seems to have quite a few votes >_>
JacobDB
on 15 Jan 2016
The workaround listed above doesn't seem to work anymore, it didn't work for me. This did:
<span class="fa-lg" style="font-family:helvetica;vertical-align:text-top;">g</span>
The vertical-align raises the letter above a bit to line it up with a row of other social network icons.
AmrEldib
on 23 Jan 2016
“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!” ― John Waters
+1 We need a Goodreads icon, not workarounds that become unreliable overtime.
alanyee
on 29 Jan 2016
+1
bege13mot
on 4 Feb 2016
+1
vensko
on 10 Feb 2016
+1
MarkEEaton
on 20 Feb 2016
+1
kevinsiji
on 25 Feb 2016
+1
alexrodba
on 12 Mar 2016
+1
CDuy
on 13 Mar 2016
+1
BenSibley
on 15 Mar 2016
it's never gonna happen, you might as well give up adding your plus ones
ghost
on 15 Mar 2016
+1
robertohernando
on 30 Mar 2016
I think it might help if we mention some of the top contributors of the last release to get some attention on this. So here it goes: @davegandy and @tagliala .
RobertDiebels
on 31 Mar 2016
Hey, look, everyone. We got an icon for Envira, a WordPress gallery plugin, but still nothing for a website that's in Alexa's top 500 sites. In the world. Cool. Makes sense.
iamfantastikate
on 13 Apr 2016
+1
julia-r
on 13 Apr 2016
+1
2AbbyNormal
on 19 Apr 2016
+1!
zgracem
on 25 Apr 2016
+1
TravisCarden
on 8 May 2016
+1
lenina101
on 16 May 2016
We could also check if we can create a pull request which solves this issue. Since there are 111 participants one should probably know how to do it. I could take a look next weekend. However I've never done something like this before (could be a great learning experience though).
RobertDiebels
on 17 May 2016
+1
bonyboy
on 1 Jun 2016
+1
hkoskinen
on 3 Jun 2016
:+1:
logological
on 12 Jun 2016
+1
RationalG
on 17 Jun 2016
+1
CourtneyDion
on 17 Jun 2016
+1
ashleyfae
on 29 Jun 2016
+1
annamariie
on 29 Jun 2016
+1
pet0ruk
on 29 Jun 2016
+1
freeborboleta
on 29 Jun 2016
+1
ksykes
on 7 Jul 2016
+1
bydrewpaul
on 7 Jul 2016
+1
elcgray
on 12 Jul 2016
+1
selenashang
on 25 Jul 2016
+1
harbingerofdeath
on 25 Jul 2016
+1
anshbansal
on 20 Aug 2016
+1
FlandersBurger
on 31 Aug 2016
+1
shashankbalaji
on 31 Aug 2016
+1111
AndreyAzimov
on 14 Sep 2016
+1
ndeason
on 22 Sep 2016
+1
jerzgirldesign
on 12 Oct 2016
+1
seoptor
on 14 Oct 2016
+1
mcekiera
on 16 Oct 2016
+1
bragboy
on 18 Oct 2016
+1
rdbinteractive
on 19 Oct 2016
+1
julianvmodesto
on 21 Oct 2016
+1
jgdodson
on 24 Oct 2016
Ok so since this issue has existed for over 3 years. I've just decided to contact GoodReads with a request to answer some questions about their icon(s).
I asked them the following:
- What font they use for their logo.
- Whether or not they have octicons available for their logos
- Whether or not they would want to assist with the creation of an icon for FontAwesome.
The first 2 questions should help with the creation of an icon by a member of this community (I'm willing to do this, though I've never done it before so it won't be done fast). It might make it into 5.0 if the pull request gets accepted.
The last could mean they would be willing to create the icon themselves or that they will help us do it.
I'm expecting an answer within 3-7 days. Though I don't know how fast their customer support is.
RobertDiebels
on 25 Oct 2016
thanks @RobertDiebels for taking the plunge !
bragboy
on 26 Oct 2016
I just had an email conversation with customer support. The first reply I got did not answer any of my questions, they just referred me to their normal icons.
The last response basically stated that they are not willing to help. And that they have no octicons or vector-based icons available and are not willing to add any for public use.
(I can post the email-convo if needed)
However I was able to find an icon set: https://alexpeattie.com/projects/justvector-icons (I can't open them because I do not have photoshop nor adobe illustrator)
Which has .svg format and actually provides photoshop files.
So anyone willing to look into this further could start there.
Maybe I will get some time this weekend (though I doubt that).
RobertDiebels
on 28 Oct 2016
We love Goodreads here at Font Awesome! Sorry it's taken a while to get in. We're working on it!
davegandy
on 28 Oct 2016
+1
Redrazor
on 16 Nov 2016
+1
@davegandy Thanks for taking the lead. Any updates? I have access to Photoshop if you need some assistance...
cobauer
on 15 Dec 2016
@davegandy Hi there, any updates on the goodreads icon?
taha27
on 31 Jan 2017
+1
cdtinney
on 7 Feb 2017
+1 because what's this gonna take?!
KuraFire
on 20 Feb 2017
+1 again. What's the hold up? What can we do to help out? This request has been open since 2013 and there's clearly a lot of interest... cc @davegandy
cobauer
on 27 Feb 2017
My annual +1. We're talking 'bout a plain old g here, people!! Is it not enough of a challenge or something?
Lasoulane
on 27 Feb 2017
I just give up.
RationalG
on 27 Feb 2017
I tweeted FontAwesome to ask why the goodreads icon hadn't been created yet, and this was the response I received...
"Yep. Thousands of open requests, many with more requests than Goodreads."
https://twitter.com/fontawesome/status/836306963365564416
Everyone: if you haven't hit the thumbs up on the original post at the top of this thread, you should go ahead and do that. I believe they may be counting the number of requests via thumbs ups instead of by the number of comments on the thread.
I did a little digging and discovered that Goodreads has the 2nd largest number of comments from their open requests. Am I missing something? I'm not trying to create trouble, but I work with a lot of authors and I'm astounded this hasn't been addressed yet.
I believe there are many people on this thread (myself included) who would be happy to help provide any design support needed. PLEASE let us know how we can expedite the process.
If you're on Twitter feel free to jump on this conversation thread to let them know what you think...
cc @davegandy @tagliala
Best,
Caitlin
cobauer
on 28 Feb 2017
@cobauer I've tried reaching out before as well. I have no doubt that their intentions are good and that eventually this icon will get in. Even-though I feel that after 3 years the state of this issue should have been addressed. Either it gets in, or it doesn't.
Clearly enough people are interested and even willing to help out.
I've hit the thumbs-up for good measure.
EDIT: Just read the twitter-feed on that message. Funny to see the standard answers from both GoodReads and FontAwesome.
RobertDiebels
on 1 Mar 2017
@cobauer It's disappointing to see that response. I'd love to have this and the Strava icon at my disposal.
+1
christianhoward
on 1 Mar 2017
+1
javierph
on 11 Mar 2017
+1
bill-c-martin
on 11 Mar 2017
I don't think they count comments as a "vote". You need to "thumbs up" the original post.
If you sort via votes Goodreads is nowhere to be seen https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc
pipdig
on 18 Mar 2017
Added my thumbs up! I want it for my blog.
twinklebob
on 30 Mar 2017
C-mon, FontAwesome... We need this icon so much :)
evgshk
on 10 Apr 2017
@bill-c-martin , @javierph , @christianhoward , @RationalG , @Lasoulane , @KuraFire , @cdtinney , @taha27 , @Redrazor , @RobertDiebels , @bragboy , @PilgrimShadow , @julianvmodesto , @rdbinteractive , @mcekiera , @seoptor , @jerzgirldesign , @ndeason , @AndreyAzimov , @shashankbalaji , @FlandersBurger , @anshbansal , @harbingerofdeath , @selenashang , @elcgray , @drewdavid , @ksykes , @freeborboleta , @pet0ruk , @annamariie , @nosegraze , @CourtneyDion , @RationalG , @logological , @devkoskinen , @bonyboy , @lenina101 , @TravisCarden , @tbombach , @zgracem , @2AbbyNormal , @julia-r , @iamfantastikate , @robertohernando , @BenSibley , @CDuy , @alexrodba , @kevinsiji , @MarkEEaton , @vensko , @bege13mot , @alanyee , @AmrEldib , @evnm , @jeremygibbs , @shiva , @aymericbeaumet , @SamanthaNguyen , @lynzt , @Kaymuhr , @sgtFloyd , @PeterShaggyNoble , @legalalien37 , @MohannadNajjar , @zablotski , @sengopal , @samcunliffe , @carrieloves , @hasssan , @TheChen5 , @tvpham11 , @nickigreenwood , @mruwek, @chrysta460, @iamfantastikate, @sorenweite, @cbrokaw, @OJFord, @Hippo313, @FriendlyWP , @utdemir , @brikis98 , @jamercier , @waxcreative , @juliemmh , @bonbonelan , @barefists , @MFIMichael , @solraxy , @JacobDB , @labbydev , @ryanchrys , @almartin82 , @Kassiah , @sskarakaya , @daveschumaker , @jcontini , @eenagy , @aleksandar-todorovic , @terrorbox , @colmarius , @BenSibley , @Amorymeltzer , @aandrezero , @creativecatapps , @agaio , @lauriemrauch , @alessandrococco , @Egga , @johnmarinelli , @activars , @Rebecca50 , @ryan-p-randall , @seanthenderson , @theonetruebix , @jenniferlynparsons , @aucrawford , @jgrahamthomas , @cristianosequeira , @jadeproulx , @JamesWhitman , @enummela , @antigravity , @karlnippoldt , @eeshan89 , @AgentEm , @marcbertone , @benstewart , @activars , @seanosaur , @darrenturpin , @gaplauche , @iceydesigns , @ernstae , @AnalogJ , @artmechanix , @Snik4er , @stevejohnson-ilikewp , @elleestcrimi , @ranaramez , @igas , @boydm , @ahmadajmi , @sajanp , @robertboloc , @JayHoltslander , @sam327 :
Not sure if you saw my previous post, but if you haven't hit the thumbs up on the _original post_ at the top of this thread, you should go ahead and do that. From what I understand the developers are counting the number of requests via "thumbs ups" instead of by the number of comments on the thread.
Thanks!
cobauer
on 3 May 2017
@cobauer It's in the top 10 now. 😄
RobertDiebels
on 7 May 2017
+1
So... I got tired of waiting and decided to do it myself. It's not perfect but its all I can do.
I basically replaced the "Be" icon for a goodreads one and also the "dribbble" icon for the deviantart one.
For my site the best one would've been only the "g" but I didn't like how it turned up, so I went for the one with a square background. I can basically replace any icon for any of the goodreads ones presented here: https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/43148/goodreads_icon
It works for me, at least until we get the official one... if we do :/
thelaughinganon
on 24 May 2017
+1
Skylith86
on 3 Jun 2017
+1
Why has this been a request for FOUR YEARS and it hasn't happened yet?
I also noticed there's no Blogger icon...
Thanks for the great icons!
mindeeforman
on 26 Jun 2017
+1
sdhiaeddine
on 27 Jun 2017
+1
griggril000
on 16 Jul 2017
+1
sudomaze
on 9 Aug 2017
+1
Please please do that. 4 years for an icon. An explanation at least would make us happy somewhat
kohnewlife
on 18 Aug 2017
+1
Kero76
on 6 Sep 2017
Hi, thanks for all your reactions to this request!
This icon will be included in the upcoming Font Awesome 5 Free. 🎉
I'm going to close this request for management purposes
Regards
tagliala
on 22 Sep 2017
That’s great news. Any idea when that will launch?
Best,
Caitlin O’Brient Bauer
On Sep 22, 2017, at 9:39 AM, Geremia Taglialatela notifications@github.com wrote:
Hi, thanks for all your reactions to this request!
This icon will be included in the upcoming Font Awesome 5 Free. 🎉
I'm going to close this request for management purposes
Regards
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cobauer
on 22 Sep 2017
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We love Goodreads here at Font Awesome! Sorry it's taken a while to get in. We're working on it!