I think I may have stumbled across the origin of the Obsidian icon. Among the items in a 2018 “Role Playing” icon set by Chanut is Industries I was surprised to spot an icon that looks very familiar. (It’s called, appropriately enough, “Crystal Shard Icon.”) If you reduce its height by about 1/3 and adjust the color, it’s spot on.
Chanut is Industries licenses it under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0), so obviously it’s fine for Obsidian to use it, but I do wonder where the required attribution statement is (or where it should be placed if it doesn’t exist yet). Does anyone know?
Though I don’t think we can rule out the possibility that both icons were repurposed from a different permissively-licensed work.
Personally, I’m 50/50 on whether the shard icon was stretched vertically from some other original rather than designed from scratch. Then again, maybe the Obsidian icon’s proportions just look more “correct” to me.
Spent a few minutes looking for where Obsidian might list its various open source attributions, but couldn’t find it, so I second this question!
Awesome! I was quite surprised to just stumble upon it randomly, but the resemblance was to exact to be a coincidence. Kinda neat to now know its “origin story” in a sense! And glad to see the credits page refreshed accordingly, too. Keep up the great work!