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Font Awesome 4 released

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Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by RBerenguel »

jwarren wrote: post #48
RBerenguel wrote: post #30

As much as I like having them for my projects (but I see no reason to get v4 instead of keeping v3), still no temperature (thermometer) nor sparklines (graph.)

I feel like this is outside of Font Awesome's remit.

I don't know why it is. A spark-like graph is useful for many use-cases (graph or bars? plot this, draw lines), and even more a thermometer-like icon (weather, medicine.) The thermometer has been hanging around the issues for a while also (or so I think from last time I checked.) I'd like to have all my icons in one basket, and I like the look of Font Awesome's. So missing these 2 is a little aesthetic pain.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

#52

Post by nwienert »

hcho wrote: post #50
fortawesome wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why it is a major release. It breaks compatibility for the sake of moving forward.

Could we not move forward without changing the namespace. Serious question.

No, they were changed for performance reasons which is a needed and important improvement:

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/568

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by thekingshorses »

jwarren wrote: post #49
thekingshorses wrote: post #41

Is this better than http://icomoon.io/app ? I can create my own font file with icomoon so it only contains the icons that I needed for my site. Only issue I have is that there is no way to save the created font file so that I can modify later.

It's different. Icomoon is brilliant for creating a preset group of icons which will be used in a predictable way. But sometimes, especially during prototyping, you don't know which icons you'll want. Just being able to include a pretty thorough library which renders consistently and gives you a decent level of control is a nice weight off your mind. It would be nice to have a subsetting tool, but imo that's what Ico…

I can save my settings in JSON but that is not ideal as I have to keep track of that. It would be better if site saves that on the server.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by j_s »

thekingshorses wrote: post #53
jwarren wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's different. Icomoon is brilliant for creating a preset group of icons which will be used in a predictable way. But sometimes, especially during prototyping, you don't know which icons you'll want. Just being able to include a pretty thorough library which renders consistently and gives you a decent level of control is a nice weight off your mind. It would be nice to have a subsetting tool, but imo that's what Ico…

I can save my settings in JSON but that is not ideal as I have to keep track of that. It would be better if site saves that on the server.

Then pay the $9/month?

http://icomoon.io/#premium

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by ahsteele »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #56

Is this the best font-icon set? Would anyone consider using more than one in a project? Do you subset them? I'm about to decide on one to use.

We use Font Awesome and have been incredibly happy. We augment the set with our own SVGs and appropriately attributed ones from The Noun Project. There are a variety of scripts and web sites available for packaging SVGs up so that they can be used as a font.
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