tkfeather

tkinter support for feather icons

Latest Changes

Current version: 1.0.1

• Fixes for and improvements to the example showcase
• Minor performace improvements

Usage

Installation

tkfeather can be installed with pip

pip install tkfeather

Import

Import tkfeather like so

from tkfeather import Feather

Once you've imported the Feather class, you can instantiate it as many times as you need

Feather(name: str, size: int [optional])

Parameters

• name: str - The name of the Feather icon
• size: int [optional] - The size of the icon image in pixels, square (default: 24)

Warning

Sizes smaller than 24px are allowed but aren't recommended as the icon will become blurred

The minimum allowed size is 1, and the maximum allowed size is 1024

Properties

• Feather.icon - an ImageTk.PhotoImage object for the given Feather icon

Class Methods

• Feather.icons_available() returns a list with the names of all available Feather Icons

Tip

tkfeather v1.0.1 supports all of the icons available in Feather Icons v4.29.0

Exceptions

• Passing a size value outside the range of 1 to 1024 will raise a ValueError
• Trying to use an icon that doesn't exist will raise a FileNotFoundError

Example

You must maintain a reference to the Feather instance in a variable in order to keep the image from being garbage-collected:

# this works
feather = Feather('home')
label = tk.Label(parent, image=feather.icon)
label.pack()

If you don't maintain a reference to the image, it won't appear!

# this doesn't work - the label will have no image
label = tk.Label(parent, image=Feather('home').icon)
label.pack()

Showcase

To see an example application showcasing all of the available icons, you can run the tkfeather.showcase like so:

python3 -m tkfeather.showcase

Packaged Dependencies

• PNG Icons
• Pillow >= 9.2.0

Acknowledgements

Based on Feather Icons originally created by Cole Bemis, used under the MIT License

• https://feathericons.com
• https://github.com/feathericons/feather