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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

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Post by cobychapple »

fortawesome wrote: post #52
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've updated the license. It's still CC-BY, but the only attribution required is in human-readable code. That means it could be commented in your html, css, or wherever. No need to have it visible in the webpage itself, unless you're feeling generous.

Brilliant. Thanks for the clarification, and for the cool resource!

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

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Post by cobychapple »

justincormack wrote: post #66
fortawesome wrote: post #44

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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.

Attribution in code is unworkable if you minify code as it will no longer be there. Coders who are looking that hard will be able to work out where the awsomeness came from. Embrace a sane open source license please, something that would eg allow distribution with Debian.

I would have thought attribution using comments in the main HTML would be an easy solution if you're minifying your CSS.

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

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Post by mhartl »

hornbaker wrote: post #61

Brilliant. I absolutely love this, and will absolutely use Font Awesome in my next project. While the name Font Awesome is catchy, it doesn't say much about the product, and won't carry seo juice or meaning for your main selling point: better icons. A name like "fonticons" (pronounced like "emoticons") might be stronger, and you could own that term which may go generic (like "kleenex") if the technique is widely adop…

Dude, hornbaker, you're a mensch. I love it when people do stuff like this.

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

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Post by hornbaker »

mhartl wrote: post #93
hornbaker wrote: post #61

Brilliant. I absolutely love this, and will absolutely use Font Awesome in my next project. While the name Font Awesome is catchy, it doesn't say much about the product, and won't carry seo juice or meaning for your main selling point: better icons. A name like "fonticons" (pronounced like "emoticons") might be stronger, and you could own that term which may go generic (like "kleenex") if the technique is widely adop…

Dude, hornbaker, you're a mensch. I love it when people do stuff like this.

Thanks, but he hasn't contacted me yet. Putting up a competitive site now. j/k :)

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

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Post by fortawesome »

hornbaker wrote: post #94
mhartl wrote: post #93

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Dude, hornbaker, you're a mensch. I love it when people do stuff like this.

Thanks, but he hasn't contacted me yet. Putting up a competitive site now. j/k :)

Whoa, I sent you an email yesterday. Double-checking the email spelling...

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

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Post by josephcooney »

fortawesome wrote: post #4
clarkmoody wrote: post #3

This is a great idea! Wanting to use this font offline, I was trying to install the .ttf to my Windows fonts, but I was unable to do so. Windows claims that it is not a valid font file. Any suggestions on why this is the case?

Only the webfont is available currently, so you won't be able to install it on your system.

Is there any way it can be converted to a 'valid-according-to-windows' TTF file? I'd love to embed this in an app. If the process is a bit involved I'd be happy to give it a try if you give me a few pointers.
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