Thanks for your answer and the project itself! I also know http://fontello.com/
however it seems like these projects are all lagging by a few versions back.
There's actually a whole new build system, where LESS, SCSS, and CSS are completely driven off a single icons.yml file. Hooray for no more copy and paste!
Is it just me, or do quite a few of these look like they've been auto-converted from a bitmap, and picked up jaggies in the process (icon-windows for example)?
This a nice update for Font Awesome, but I am still a big advocate for using IcoMoon [1] to generate your own icon font.
I think it's the best way to generate a font with only the icons you actually need. It's a much more lean way to handle icons, rather than just getting an icon font with a huge library that you won't even use 70% of. And don't get me wrong, Font Awesome has great icons, but I would just use those inside IcoMoon to generate a font that has only the icons you need.
Nice. I often use Fontello [1] to snag only the fonts I need for a particular project. They have several libraries there, and you can select what you need from any/all and download the compiled CSS and font files.
This is maybe slightly off-topic... but does anyone know of an icon-font for AJAX indicators?
FontAwesome has a single one which is tries to rotate, but which isn't quite the same (and relies on newer browsers).
I'm thinking a font with perhaps twelve lines/spokes for each position, where you'd superimpose all twelve, and then use CSS to animate their colors/opacity only (not actually moving/rotating them), but with a JS fallback.
Dave is doing a fantastic job here! His 'democratic' approach is killing it. The time difference between 3.0 -> 3.1 to 3.1 -> 3.2 was really good, so happy that he's doing this! :)
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Anyone else have any other favorite options?
I'll give away a few free licenses for anyone curious, just hit me up on Twitter. @brianmgonzalez
http://fontprep.com
See https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/src/...
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/whats-new/
If you see some non-brand icons that look like they have issues, definitely let me know.
I think it's the best way to generate a font with only the icons you actually need. It's a much more lean way to handle icons, rather than just getting an icon font with a huge library that you won't even use 70% of. And don't get me wrong, Font Awesome has great icons, but I would just use those inside IcoMoon to generate a font that has only the icons you need.
[1] http://icomoon.io/
http://www.icnfnt.com/
It's currently at version 3.0.2, but I'm sure they'll update it to 3.2 soon.
it seems that the author will address these issues soon (issue #19).
i wanna thank him too for his efforts
[1] http://fontello.com/
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/1197
I basically took the democratic approach for this release by hitting the issues with the most +1s.
Also updated the comparison tool here: http://tagliala.github.io/vectoriconsroundup/
FontAwesome has a single one which is tries to rotate, but which isn't quite the same (and relies on newer browsers).
I'm thinking a font with perhaps twelve lines/spokes for each position, where you'd superimpose all twelve, and then use CSS to animate their colors/opacity only (not actually moving/rotating them), but with a JS fallback.