# darkskyapp/skycons

Repository: https://github.com/darkskyapp/skycons
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/skycons
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2019-10-27T20:26:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4927, "days_push": 2502, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1233, forks 309 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:04.657610+00:00)

## What it is
Skycons is a set of ten animated weather glyphs procedurally generated with JavaScript on the HTML5 canvas, created by The Dark Sky Company. It is lightweight, easy to embed in web pages, and released into the public domain (CC0).

## Use cases
- show animated weather icons on a website
- render weather glyphs on html5 canvas
- display rain or partly cloudy icons in a weather dashboard
- animate weather icons in a forecast web app
- add lightweight weather icons to a web page

## When to choose
- you need simple animated weather icons in a browser via canvas
- you want a tiny dependency-free icon library with permissive public-domain licensing
- you are building a weather display using the Dark Sky or Forecast API icon names

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software with ongoing bug fixes
- you need icons outside the ten supported weather glyphs
- you need SVG or CSS-based icons instead of canvas rendering

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: animation, ui-components, graphics
- domain: web-development, frontend, weather
- platform: browser
- tags: weather-icons, canvas, animated-glyphs, public-domain, javascript

## Member repositories
- darkskyapp/skycons (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:04.657610+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:22:15.587010+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/darkskyapp/skycons (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:04.657610+00:00, sha 2ae63623fa8c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.