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Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap

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Re: Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap

#22

Post by fortawesome »

cobychapple wrote: post #20

You have licensed this under the CC-BY 3.0 license (which requires attribution 'in the manner specified by the author'), but I can't see anywhere that you've specified how it needs to be attributed if used. Is this something you can elaborate on?

Good catch. I'll clarify in the docs, but a link back to the project somewhere accessible and on the same domain will suffice. I'm also happy to make exceptions on a case by case basis, also in accordance with the CC BY 3.0.

Re: Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap

#25

Post by headbiznatch »

I love font icons and these are great. Thanks for sharing.

Two notes:

1) When I first started using font icons, I encountered an issue that might be worth sharing - you need to make sure your web server properly handles the more esoteric file types that are included in the @font-face declaration.

2) Paperclip icon!!!! I'm sad when these icon sets are missing this very useful metaphor for "attachment": not "my dog just died" sad, more like "I wish I could fly" sad. I am just throwing that out there.

Re: Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap

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Post by fortawesome »

headbiznatch wrote: post #25

I love font icons and these are great. Thanks for sharing. Two notes: 1) When I first started using font icons, I encountered an issue that might be worth sharing - you need to make sure your web server properly handles the more esoteric file types that are included in the @font-face declaration. 2) Paperclip icon!!!! I'm sad when these icon sets are missing this very useful metaphor for "attachment": not "my dog jus…

1) Good catch. I'll look into what's going on there. 2) I like the idea for a paperclip icon. I'll look into adding that into the next version.

Watch the repo or follow @FontAweso_me on Twitter to stay apprised of updates.

Re: Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap

#28

Post by fortawesome »

chrisacky wrote: post #27

What application did you use to make these fonts in the first instance? I would quite like to have a go at making my own font icons. Could be quite useful in replacement of spritesheets.

I used Illustrator to make the vectors, copied directly into Fontographer, saved as TTF, then converted to webfont with Fontsquirrel.com.

Re: Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap

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Post by ars »

fortawesome wrote: post #22
cobychapple wrote: post #20

You have licensed this under the CC-BY 3.0 license (which requires attribution 'in the manner specified by the author'), but I can't see anywhere that you've specified how it needs to be attributed if used. Is this something you can elaborate on?

Good catch. I'll clarify in the docs, but a link back to the project somewhere accessible and on the same domain will suffice. I'm also happy to make exceptions on a case by case basis, also in accordance with the CC BY 3.0.

Is a comment in the stylesheet where the font is defined OK? That's what I usually do when the license requires attribution.
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