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vigilantkon Show HN: Vigil Icons – 111 free icons for what people accuse each other of

Thanks! If you only look at one part, make it the Words entries (https://www.vigilicons.com/words). Writing them turned up that the red flag emoji is officially a "Triangular Flag" drawn as a golf marker, and that "beige flag" reversed meaning within months, with page one of Google still contradicting itself.

vigilantkon Show HN: Vigil Icons – 111 free icons for what people accuse each other of

I drew these because general icon sets have folders and arrows and nothing for the things people actually say about each other. There is no symbol for being ghosted — the ghost emoji means Halloween — and the emoji keyboard doesn't cover situationship, the ick, or "could've been an email" either.

111 icons, all drawn, on a 24 grid as a single currentColor path each. SVG, sprite, React components, a web component, Slack/Discord emoji and iMessage/WhatsApp sticker packs. OFL-1.1, no email wall, no paid tier — it started with a paywall and that was obviously wrong: a joke nobody can paste into a group chat isn't worth anything.

There's also a written entry per icon — what the phrase means, when you'd send it, and why the existing emoji fail. Writing those turned up things I didn't expect: "performative" is now a contranym, and "beige flag" reversed meaning inside a year with page one of Google still contradicting itself.

Fair warning on one thing: these are drawn at 96-128px, not 24. The stroke is under 1px at icon-tray size, so they work as things you send rather than as UI chrome.

Happy to answer anything about the drawing or the build.