I am a core contributor on the Material Design Icon (MDI) library which Home Assistant consumes and makes available via mdi:icon-name. We have a bit of a change-up coming with MDI when it comes to “brand” icons. When I say “brand,” I mean things like company logos. For example, the Facebook logo, the Pi-Hole logo, etc.
Moving forward, we are no longer going to be adding new brand icons to the MDI library. Instead, we’re beginning to point people towards SimpleIcons, an icon library that specializes in brand icons only.
We have not yet internally decided if we will be deprecating the brand icons currently available in the MDI library. That means any brand icons currently available in MDI as of 3.6 will continue to be available for use, but we will not add any new brand icons in upcoming versions. If we do decide to deprecate and remove any brand icons, we will be sure to announce that intent and the timeframe until those icons are completely removed from MDI.
We will not be removing or changing any non-brand icons in the library.
To be proactive, I’m recommending Home Assistant also is proactive and adds support for SimpleIcons (perhaps with a si:icon-name format).
Please let me know if I can be of any more assistance with this matter.
Hey @goyney, thanks for alerting us to this. For future reference, this kind of thing is probably best communicated via a issue on the frontend repo. The correct people have been alerted to this though.
It’s why extra_module exists as a preparation for when browsers stop supporting extra_html. Will need some rewriting of the icon packs… I’ll get to it some day.
And I have an idea on how to force it into hacs, so there you’ll have the UI support.
