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Re:Font Awesome 5 by Ciantic on Monday October 24, 2016 @12:48PM (#12780510)
You should be able to extract the SVG really easily from the fontawesome-webfont.svg file, and colorize those with simple css e.g. fill: #ff0; The svg font file contains SVG path elements as glyph elements.

In light of what I said, why is SVG support "Pro" feature?

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Re:Font Awesome 5 by fortawesome on Monday October 24, 2016 @12:50PM (#12780531)
We're doing a lot more than just SVG support. Our goal is to make them as easy to use as icon fonts. That means you can auto-inherit color, size, drop-shadow, etc. And more.

(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.)

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Re:Font Awesome 5 by amelius on Monday October 24, 2016 @01:39PM (#12780981)
But how often do people share attributes between fonts and icons? And how often do you need to inherit attributes that way?

I'm not sure why an icon font would be easier to use than SVGs. Yes, you only have to reference a file once (the font file), but that actually makes it more difficult to use, because now you have to remember two things: how to reference the file, and how to reference the icon.

With SVG, it's simpler, because everything is usually contained in one CSS rule. Yes, it has a reference to a file, but does that matter from the viewpoint of simplicity? I.e., make another icon? Then just copy a CSS rule and edit it.

Also, using an icon font makes it difficult to substitute a single icon by another icon. Suddenly, you have to start rearranging your CSS. With SVGs not so: just edit the referenced url.

Anyway, I love the font-awesome graphics. Except for a few icons, such as icons containing people (they look too bulky and inelegant, for my taste). But most icon-sets don't get people-icons right.

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Re:Font Awesome 5 by jrochkind1 on Monday October 24, 2016 @02:20PM (#12781350)
> But how often do people share attributes between fonts and icons?

Often.

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