Weather Icons
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The facts
Each one read from Weather Icons's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Build tools
- The project supports Less and Sass preprocessors for integrating the icons into existing builds.checked 11 Oct 2026
- CSS preprocessors
- Less and Sass files are available for integration into existing builds.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Icon count
- The project describes a set of 222 weather themed icons.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Icon utilities
- Built in utility classes support fixed width, horizontal and vertical flips, and 90, 180, or 270 degree rotations.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Licensing
- The GitHub README lists SIL OFL 1.1 for the icons, MIT for code, and CC BY 3.0 for documentation.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Maintainer
- The package metadata names Erik Flowers as an author.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Maintainer credit
- The repository credits Erik Flowers with the HTML, Less, and CSS, and credits Lukas Bischoff with the original icon designs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Weather Icons is an icon font and CSS collection with 222 weather themed icons for Bootstrap and other projects.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Setup
- Basic use involves placing the CSS and font files in a project and adding the `wi` class plus an icon class to an HTML element.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Specialty icons
- The collection includes 28 moon phases, 12 clock hours, the Beaufort wind force scale, and maritime wind warnings.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Styling
- CSS allows the icons to be scaled, rotated, flipped, recolored, and given shadows.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project asks users to make requests or report issues in its main GitHub repository.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Web use
- The usage instructions place CSS files and fonts in a project and reference icons in HTML with CSS classes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Wind indicators
- Wind indicators require the companion weather-icons-wind CSS file in addition to the default CSS file.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Design apps
- The project includes OTF and TTF files that can be used to copy icons into Photoshop, Illustrator, or Sketch.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Graphic apps
- OTF and TTF files are included for use in graphic applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Sketch.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Weather service mappings
- The project includes CSS class mappings for Yahoo Weather, OpenWeatherMap, Forecast.io, Weather Underground, and the World Meteorological Organization.checked 11 Oct 2026
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