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[Request] Optional online icon search (via Iconify API) for label editor #29

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@phanex

Problem

Right now, adding an icon to a label requires manually finding it online, downloading the file to disk, and then importing it into the editor. For a workflow that's otherwise fully in-browser (Web Bluetooth, no server), this manual round-trip breaks the flow.

Proposed solution

Add an optional "Icon search" panel in the web editor that queries a public icon API and lets the user drop a result straight onto the canvas, skipping the manual download/import step.

A good fit would be the public Iconify API (https://api.iconify.design), which is free, requires no API key, and aggregates 200,000+ SVG icons from 200+ open-source icon sets (Material Symbols, Tabler, Lucide, Phosphor, Feather, etc.), most under MIT/Apache-2.0/CC0. It exposes:

  • /search?query=... for text search
  • /{prefix}/{name}.svg to fetch the actual SVG

The SVG could be rendered to a canvas client-side and piped into the existing image import pipeline, so no changes are needed downstream (rasterization, dithering, printing stay identical).

Important constraint: graceful degradation

This should be a purely optional, additive layer:

  • If the API is unreachable (offline, rate-limited, etc.), the search panel should simply show an "unavailable offline" state (or be hidden) — everything else (manual image upload, existing labels, printing) must keep working exactly as it does today.
  • No local bundling of icon sets, no new required dependency for the core offline workflow — this is strictly an online convenience feature.

Happy to help test / provide feedback on any implementation approach. Thanks for the great project!

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  1. phanex commented on Aug 29, 2026

    @phanex
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    I have implemented full Iconify integration & icon browsing support in #33

    What was added:

    • Global Search & Collection Browsing: Integrated Iconify API supporting 200+ icon sets (>200,000 monochrome icons).
    • Categorized Browsing: Popular collections (Lucide, Tabler, Material Symbols, Phosphor, Boxicons, Font Awesome, etc.) & All Collections view grouped by categories.
    • Dynamic Style Variants: Support for Outline, Filled, Bold, Duotone, etc.
    • Keyboard Shortcut: C shortcut and Add icon command in ⌘K Command Palette.
    • Selection Handles Fix: Fixed stale Konva Transformer selection handles on async image/icon load.
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