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Re: Show HN: Font Awesome to PNG

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Post by marco1 »

What a coincidence, I made the FA icons downloadable in 6 colors and 8 sizes just over this weekend as well [1]. One should note, however, that it's 99% odyniec's great script [2] and only 1% some trivial frontend/collection for both projects. [1] https://github.com/delight-im/Font-Awesome-PNG [2] https://github.com/odyniec/font-awesome-to-png

Re: Show HN: Font Awesome to PNG

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Post by rblatz »

lowboy wrote: post #39
rblatz wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does that buy you that using something like gulp-iconfont https://github.com/nfroidure/gulp-iconfont doesn't?

That project doesn't seem to integrate with Fontello at all.

Right, the point would be to not require a bunch of scripts to tie into an online service to generate a font. Instead you just do it all locally at build time.

Re: Show HN: Font Awesome to PNG

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Post by jammmuel »

dpe82 wrote: post #37
primitivesuave wrote: post #34

In that one rare occasion where I had to convert a FA icon to a png file, I wrote a basic HTML page with the icon, screen captured it, and resized. This seems better.

That's potentially a really poor way of doing it; if your browser/OS does subpixel rendering the resulting PNG could look terrible on other machines.

Not to mention lack of alpha transparency.

Re: Show HN: Font Awesome to PNG

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Post by billpg »

coldtea wrote: post #24
mahmoudhossam wrote: post #12

fa2png is an unfortunate name for a project, really.

In what way? It's googlable. It's unique. It describes exactly what it does. And if follows a huge tradition of x2y tools (pdf2text, etc etc).

If I had to guess, maybe it looks a bit like the word "fapping"?
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