Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development
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Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development
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Re: Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development
#2Ok, I might be a bit slow. Can somebody explain to me the advantage of using a font file instead of a sprite png?
I understand that there would be advantages with a high resolution display. It would scale automatically. Anything beside that?
Re: Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development
#3Ok, I might be a bit slow. Can somebody explain to me the advantage of using a font file instead of a sprite png? I understand that there would be advantages with a high resolution display. It would scale automatically. Anything beside that?
One way I like to use them is to easily apply style like dropshahow to them through CSS. It's so easier to tweak it thought CSS than to go back to photoshop each time
Re: Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development
#4This title is pretty poor, could we get it changed to "How to use icon fonts in iOS development and why they are useful" or something like that?
Re: Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development
#5This title is pretty poor, could we get it changed to "How to use icon fonts in iOS development and why they are useful" or something like that?
Sure thing.
Re: Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development
#6Ok, I might be a bit slow. Can somebody explain to me the advantage of using a font file instead of a sprite png? I understand that there would be advantages with a high resolution display. It would scale automatically. Anything beside that?
The better question is what does this gain you over a vector format.
Re: Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development
#7Anyone interested in using Icon Fonts should definitely check out [1] - it allows you to generate and download icon fonts by selecting vectors from different packs.
Re: Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development
#8Anyone interested in using Icon Fonts should definitely check out [1] - it allows you to generate and download icon fonts by selecting vectors from different packs. [1] http://icomoon.io/app/
Wow thanks for this! I was just looking for something like this to generate fonts so I can stop using pngs. Awesome!
Re: Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development
#9Ok, I might be a bit slow. Can somebody explain to me the advantage of using a font file instead of a sprite png? I understand that there would be advantages with a high resolution display. It would scale automatically. Anything beside that?
CSS text effects, dynamic color, sizing, etc. Creating assets for 6 different button sizes gets a hell of a lot less complicated with an icon font.
Re: Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development
#10I wrote a script which generates iOS tab bar icon-sized sprites from the Font Awesome icon font: https://github.com/jogloran/Font-Awesome