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Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by _mtr » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

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.

"Designed for" isn't "requires". It was designed to be compatible with Bootstrap, but that doesn't preclude it from playing nice with other frameworks.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by davewiner » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

ihsw wrote: post #2

Oh for heaven's sake, why is icon-* being deprecated? I stopped using Glyphicons because they switched to glyphion-* .

Oy I didn't see that. Oh man.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by singlow » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 4:35 PM UTC

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?

icomoon.io

It doesn't have the 10 new version 4 FA icons yet - but you can add any svg based icon you want, or any icon from one of the many other free sets they have.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by Brajeshwar » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 4:36 PM UTC

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?

Try http://icomoon.io/

You can upload your own (or others) fonts too. Use only the ones you need instead of adding the whole font to your project.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by zebra » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 4:38 PM UTC

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.

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

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by fortawesome » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 4:42 PM UTC

zebra wrote: post #15

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.

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.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by fortawesome » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 4:43 PM UTC

gprasanth wrote: post #6

ihsw wrote: post #2

Oh for heaven's sake, why is icon-* being deprecated? I stopped using Glyphicons because they switched to glyphion-* .

My guess is to avoid polluting the class namespace.

Correct. And it is customizable as a variable.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by fortawesome » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 4:44 PM UTC

iambateman wrote: post #4

So FontAwesome 4 isn't backwards compatible, right? I wonder how much faster it is.

We've been seeing as high as 30% in webkit. Hoping to write the findings up. It's especially hard as pretty much every browser has killed off their CSS profiler.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by leeoniya » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 4:44 PM UTC

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.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by jgj » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 4:45 PM UTC

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