For some reason the website represents them in true 1998 fashion using such a tiny font size, but they actually look very nice in bigger sizes. (Especially on HiDPI display!)
Have to say, the symbol for spinner icon is poor choice. It doesn't look good when animated like that; typically the individual dots grow/shrink sequentially (impossible to implement in CSS as long as the icon is a single element).
Bootstrap should include vector icons by default. In the era of HiDPI displays, bitmap icons look just plain ugly (unless served in double resolution). Nobody should use them. (Not to mention save of bandwith!)
I don't think it's awesome and find its name rather annoying. It's something that people who don't know about 2x images or don't realize how few newer browsers lack svg support find appealing.
People are really getting carried away with these glyph fonts lately.
In Firefox go to Options > Content > Fonts > Advanced and disable "allow pages to chose their own fonts". This is how some people will see your web page. Hardly a graceful downgrading.
Don't forget to slap the "best viewed in [my favorite] browser" icon on your pages while you're at it.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 51.3 ms ] threadBootstrap 3 and Font Awesome 3 should just marry each other and get it over with.
http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2012/12/10/bootstrap-3-plans/
You can see the bootstrap 3 branch in the bootstrap github project.
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> SIL open font license, MIT license for code.
That sounds like free-as-in-freedom to me, not just free-as-in-beer.
In Firefox go to Options > Content > Fonts > Advanced and disable "allow pages to chose their own fonts". This is how some people will see your web page. Hardly a graceful downgrading.
Don't forget to slap the "best viewed in [my favorite] browser" icon on your pages while you're at it.