Would the old method of a bunch of small png files in a directory work much better, now that HTTP/2 is here?
They also just bought an icon design studio, Symbolset, and include many of their icons in the Fort Awesome icon selector: https://symbolset.com/
My favorite workflow is grabbing an svg icon from Noun Project, modifying it in Illustrator until it suits my needs, copying it (Cmd + C), and pasting it directly into the Fort Awesome import box.
This has all the benefits of generating svgs on your own with very little downside. It's saved me a lot of time and it makes turning an app design into a finished product a much faster process.
In light of what I said, why is SVG support "Pro" feature?
(And the SVG font file format automatically flips the icons. So you'd need to invert. TOTALLY doable, if with a good bit of effort.)
(I know for some folks they just like having all their static assets in one place so there's just a single point of failure.)
I parse my CSS file (I embed content:"\f..." strings instead of fa-... classes) to see what I'm actually using and then hack up the font file to only include those characters.
The how is a little technical but I've gone through it here: http://askubuntu.com/q/557980/449
And it's definitely worth it. Most of my sites' FA files are under 2KB.
1. Using Kickstarter as a way to give PRO users a discount on their normal $40 rate. 2. Using Kickstarter as a way to market/announce their new business model.
If that's indeed why they are doing this as a Kickstarter then its a pretty great way to use Kickstarter, imho!
I'm sure they don't need to do that but if you've already got the following to allow it, why not take the opportunity to ramp up the buzz?
It also puts some focus on the much-ignored professional versions. Most people have been happy to use the free versions. This draws attention to the fact that designing things takes time and that is worth something.
They need to choose between: 1) If you're gonna raise money, then release all your work for free. No "premium" icons. 2) If you're gonna have a freemium-premium model, then don't have a fundraiser and get others to underwrite your risks.
Ping me over email and I'll make an intro. Amazingly talented and honestly my favorite human beings I've met in the past month. CANNOT recommend them highly enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI
Though still well done.
-- Edit: not trying to be sarcastic or blaming anyone. I'm saying what I feel about Font-Awesome. If you don't like my thoughts, you just have to live with that. As a member of the community, I guess I also have rights to ask for something, which I do, and I guess I also have all the rights to talk about something that I've been waiting for, for a long time.
Thanks for the downvotes. I hope you can ever understand what was written in the future before downvoting it.
In FA5 we're adding a good number more brand icons. Entirely possible they make it in.
Thanks for providing the motivation, random entitled community member! =)
Now I just need to figure out what to get with the new, custom icon reward...
Yes, you do. You can also ask for it in a reasonable way instead of being a dick, which led to the downvotes in combination with your excessive arrogance in the edits. This isn't that hard to figure out.
Some of the icons themselves represent something of a universal language for websites. Using those symbols in a typeface is similar in some ways to character based languages like Japanese or Chinese. So I might argue that icons as fonts are quite an appropriate use.
But then there was IE9 mobile, which didn't support @font-face. I remember coding detection for that, and creating a script that automatically generates png versions and the required CSS of the glyphs in use. Sigh.
Oh, and the icons aren't that consistent. It happens over time as you do 40-ish icons per release. It wanders a bit and you lose consistency.
We're fixing all that.
I wonder, is traditional incremental versioning appropriate for what users perceive as a 100% stylistic change (notwithstanding the immense effort of a full rewrite of its internals). Do you intend to enhance Font Awesome 4 after the release of 5, or is 4 going to be EOL?
(Seriously, those mugs are going to be awesome. Enamelware lasts forever and we found this fantastic place to make them. They'll probably outlast me.)
1) it's FA and looks alright as it is
2) can't beat free, so I don't need to worry about licenses for every single web project
A completely redesigned, larger, commercial library might be interesting, but it is a new project and has practically nothing to do with FA 4.
I really like that icon category though. We'll add it to the potential stretch goal icon category packs.
There are some security apps a family member is working on, and having some more related icons would help make his app better. We were talking about it this morning, and then this post arrived.
Thanks!
Also the option to commission your own icon is really exciting! :-)
And Font Awesome 5 Free will be pretty awesome too. Your pick.
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/9245#issu...
Still no answer. Am I the only one that cares that the current state of FontAwesome encourages tying your email address (via a unique token) to your site's specific FontAwesome usage?
https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/fontawesome/ isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
(Also, 4.7 was released today with 41 new icons. If you had one of our unqiue CDN links, you'd be able to upgrade without pushing any code.)
Also, there are too many unnecessary brand icons (e.g. skyatlas? houzz? most people aren't gonna use those).
Donated $5 anyways.
And you're right. It is a bit neglected. That's why we're re-doing everything. :)
Already have a huge start on things.
This one's a classic: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/1958
