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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 fortawesome »

thekungfuman wrote: post #10

Does using the tag have any negative effect on the semantic markup of a page? I see that it doesn't impact screen-readers but what about if someone is trying to parse your HTML?

Should also work just fine with the tag. is just shorter. I went with the same method Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 is using for their fixed-size icons: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/base-css.html#icons

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

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Post by ccollins »

First, this is great. The Bootstrap Sprites definitely need some love and this is a solid forward step.

I am close to dropping in Font Awesome, but the small font sizes really need work. Here is a comparison screenshot of the standard bootstrap sprites vs font awesome sprites in Chrome on Mac: https://s3.amazonaws.com/gusta/sprites-less-vs-font-awesome-...

Again, awesome work. Font Awesome is on my short list to use once it's cleaned up a bit.

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

#13

Post by fortawesome »

ccollins wrote: post #12

First, this is great. The Bootstrap Sprites definitely need some love and this is a solid forward step. I am close to dropping in Font Awesome, but the small font sizes really need work. Here is a comparison screenshot of the standard bootstrap sprites vs font awesome sprites in Chrome on Mac: https://s3.amazonaws.com/gusta/sprites-less-vs-font-awesome-... Again, awesome work. Font Awesome is on my short list to use…

Thanks for the example. I'll start work on hinting next to see what I can do at the default size.

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

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Post by ccollins »

fortawesome wrote: post #13
ccollins wrote: post #12

First, this is great. The Bootstrap Sprites definitely need some love and this is a solid forward step. I am close to dropping in Font Awesome, but the small font sizes really need work. Here is a comparison screenshot of the standard bootstrap sprites vs font awesome sprites in Chrome on Mac: https://s3.amazonaws.com/gusta/sprites-less-vs-font-awesome-... Again, awesome work. Font Awesome is on my short list to use…

Thanks for the example. I'll start work on hinting next to see what I can do at the default size.

Cool - what are you using to edit the fonts? Any way I could help?

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

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Post by fortawesome »

ccollins wrote: post #15
fortawesome wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the example. I'll start work on hinting next to see what I can do at the default size.

Cool - what are you using to edit the fonts? Any way I could help?

Absolutely you can help. I'll drop you an email.

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

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Post by remi »

It says “Wide @font-face support means Font Awesome even works in IE4” but not as the way it is implemented on the demo page.

That technique is not compatible with browsers that do not support the :before pseudo-class (eg. IE7). The icons could be used though, but not that way.

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

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Post by fortawesome »

remi wrote: post #18

It says “Wide @font-face support means Font Awesome even works in IE4” but not as the way it is implemented on the demo page. That technique is not compatible with browsers that do not support the :before pseudo-class (eg. IE7). The icons could be used though, but not that way.

That's a great point, as far as the the LESS and CSS go, which were optimized for Twitter Bootstrap. If you're not using that TWBS, Font Awesome would just take a bit more work with CSS. That's a great idea for a fork.

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

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Post by cobychapple »

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?

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