Alpha icon

New Added in v0.6.0

A free pencil-style alpha icon, drawn by code from . Use it as an SVG, a React component, or by name. MIT licensed.

alpha

01Use it

Use alpha

One package, four ways in. The icon inherits currentColor and is decorative unless you give it a title. Install it with npm i @matita/icons.

React

import { Alpha } from '@matita/icons/react';

<Alpha size={24} />

// or by name
import { SketchIcon } from '@matita/icons/react';
<SketchIcon name="alpha" />

JavaScript

import { Alpha, toSvg } from '@matita/icons';

toSvg(Alpha, { size: 24 });   // SVG string

SVG

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="24" height="24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.6" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" overflow="visible" class="sketch-icon sketch-icon-alpha" data-sketch="" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M20.1 5.59C17.53 13.52 13.76 17.61 9.12 19.17C4.15 19.19 2.64 17.51 3.5 12.44C4.53 8.27 6.1 5.92 10.39 5.65C15.48 5.05 17.52 6.92 16.64 13.09C16.01 17.18 17.52 19.22 21.43 18.84" stroke-width="1.6"/></svg>

Pencil variant

import '@matita/icons/pencil.css';
import { Alpha } from '@matita/icons/react';

<Alpha size={32} pencil />

The file is icons/alpha.svg in the package (pencil/alpha.svg for the pencil variant). Matita 0.6.0.

02How it's drawn

The recipe for alpha

Alpha is not stored as a drawing. It is a recipe of on a 24 by 24 grid, and a small program draws it like a pencil would. The wobble comes from the name, so it always comes out the same.

A · Recipe
B 20 6 17.33 13.33 13.67 17.67 9 19 4.33 19.33 2.5 17.5 3.5 12.5 4.35 8.24 6.18 5.93 10.5 5.5 15.5 5 17.5 7 16.5 13 15.83 17.33 17.33 19.33 21 19
B · Plotted
C · Drawn
How it works

03Takes, sizes, pencil

Same icon, every way

Pass a seed for another take of the same recipe. The wobble is capped, so it still reads at 16 px.

seed 0
seed 1
seed 2
seed 3
seed 4

Five seeds of alpha. Seed 0 is the default.

wobble 0
wobble 0.25
wobble 0.5
wobble 0.75
wobble 1

alpha from exact shapes (wobble 0) to the full hand (wobble 1, the default). The exact version is also a ready-made file: exact/alpha.svg.

16 px
20 px
24 px
32 px
48 px
96 px

True pixel sizes.

Ink
Pencil