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

Post by wiradikusuma » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 4:08 AM UTC

fortawesome wrote: post #44

dangrossman wrote: post #42

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Darn. It's a shame that the icons are the only part of Bootstrap not under the same license. I was hoping this font would change that, but it's going to remain a no-go for commercial sites and apps where the company isn't going to create a "credits" page just to link back to CC-BY licensed stuff. They'll just license Glyphicons instead. In fact, now I'm curious. You took the Glyphicons set and effectively copied it,…

I'm re-considering the license for the font itself. I agree, attribution on a commercial site would not be ideal. Attribution in code, however, seems reasonable. I used the classes from the Glyphicons set for backwards compatibility, but every icon was designed from scratch. If you look closely, you'll notice many of them are quite different.

Post by fortawesome » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 4:14 AM UTC

ars wrote: post #29

fortawesome wrote: post #22

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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.

Post by praxeologist » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 5:25 AM UTC

fortawesome wrote: post #49

praxeologist wrote: post #48

Request: an empty/reverse/outline icon-tint or droplet Nice stuff, going to try to use it sometime!

Check out icon-tint. Does that one cover it?

Post by armandososa » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 5:33 AM UTC

fortawesome wrote: post #28

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.

Post by mjking » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 6:18 AM UTC

fortawesome wrote: post #44

dangrossman wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Darn. It's a shame that the icons are the only part of Bootstrap not under the same license. I was hoping this font would change that, but it's going to remain a no-go for commercial sites and apps where the company isn't going to create a "credits" page just to link back to CC-BY licensed stuff. They'll just license Glyphicons instead. In fact, now I'm curious. You took the Glyphicons set and effectively copied it,…

I'm re-considering the license for the font itself. I agree, attribution on a commercial site would not be ideal. Attribution in code, however, seems reasonable. I used the classes from the Glyphicons set for backwards compatibility, but every icon was designed from scratch. If you look closely, you'll notice many of them are quite different.