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Font Awesome 4 released

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Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by skore »

manishsharan wrote: post #8

I love Font Awesome though I do not understand why they have to claim "The iconic font designed for Bootstrap" --- I have managed to use Font Aweome with Zurb Foundation and SASS and it works just fine.

Bootstrap is crazy popular and people know about it enough that they understand that "designed for Bootstrap" usually means "you can hack it to fit your stuff".

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by zebra »

fortawesome wrote: post #16
zebra wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of brandjacking - but as it is free product I fail to see this as an ill behavior.

Fair enough. Originally there was quite a bit of CSS to get it to play nice with Bootstrap. Now, it should have more compatibility across the board with all frameworks.

Clever move - every framework has or will have support for Bootstrap and Font Awesome respectively. BTW Good job, I appreciate your effort.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by RBerenguel »

jgj wrote: post #20
leeoniya wrote: post #19

370 icons is nice, but what i really want is a tool that lets me put together a smaller subset from multiple icon fonts that only has what my app needs. A global font-icon library from which to assemble this subset would be ideal. These collections are trying to cater to everyone by growing in size when the better solution here is a modularizer.

http://icomoon.io/app

Thanks for reminding me about icomoon!

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by elpool2 »

jgj wrote: post #20
leeoniya wrote: post #19

370 icons is nice, but what i really want is a tool that lets me put together a smaller subset from multiple icon fonts that only has what my app needs. A global font-icon library from which to assemble this subset would be ideal. These collections are trying to cater to everyone by growing in size when the better solution here is a modularizer.

http://icomoon.io/app

Icomoon is great, I've been using it for a while now. I find it's pretty easy to create my own icons in inkscape and then upload them to icomoon and add them to my custom icon font.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by dchest »

davewiner wrote: post #10

They renamed the icons. They don't just break apps when they do that, they break users. At some point things like the names of icons should be frozen. I love Font Awesome of course. But please!

My favorite rename is push-pin -> thumb-tack :-)

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by madoublet »

fortawesome wrote: post #22
arnley wrote: post #9

I hoped for more than 10 icons :-( Any advice on how to "add" some other SVG icons to the mix and generate the whole font package?

This update is about getting the CSS right. Cleaning it up, speeding it up, making it leaner. More icons in future versions.

Looking forward to it. Love FA.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by quarterto »

fortawesome wrote: post #27
nvk wrote: post #23

v4 And this still not really Open Source.

Uh, what are you talking about?

I think they're referring to an article that made the rounds a few days ago (can't remember which) that decried the requirement of Adobe Illustrator for participation (citing as evidence the ratio of icon requests vs pull requests).
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