D2 Icon Set Library Expansion

[HariSekhon]

Most of the time I have to pull icons from other icon sets like these:

https://github.com/HariSekhon/Knowledge-Base/blob/main/diagrams.md#important-icon-sets

but this leads to issues like #2367.

D2 needs a much larger stable high quality icon set that we can use.

You can see throughout my real world repo HariSekhon/Diagrams-as-Code I am pulling many icons for standard widely used technologies from other places like the Python Mingrammer icon set and others listed in my Knowledge Base documentation link above.

Sometimes even when D2 icons are actually available, they are not as nice.

The D2 language and tooling is excellent, but the lack of official D2 icons is a weak point that could do with a lot of improvement.

Perhaps if you did some scripted scraping and checking each icon and then saving them into the D2 Icon Set?

[alixander]

I agree, need to revamp icons.

I'm pondering the idea of a d2-icons plugin that can be installable which packages official icons of like the most popular 1000.

[HariSekhon]

Yes Python Mingrammer Diagrams basically bundles theirs, I often pull them via URL in D2, among others listed in my KB doc above.

I realized yesterday I like their rounded corners of their AWS icons more than the D2 square corner versions (which are otherwise the same icons) so I swapped them out in my diagrams.

If D2 can pull together a massive high quality icon library bundled with shortnames instead of long URLs, it'll both improve the D2 code, but also drastically improve the overall D2 rank perception among people, in my opinion.