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A comment on Trello uses an icon font and so can you. Parent comment

Re:Trello uses an icon font and so can you by minimaxir on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:52PM (#5146993)
As another example of Font-Awesome in production: I've incorporated Font-Awesome very heavily on my own blog, and it works very well: http://minimaxir.com
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Re:Trello uses an icon font and so can you by angry-hacker on Thursday January 31, 2013 @06:53PM (#5148294)
And have you seen how ugly it looks with Chrome on Windows 7? Which should be the most popular browser + most popular OS. So I disagree with you and the blog author you should use fonts as icons.

They look ugly with Chrome + if fonts are not supported they don't show anything. At least if the image is missing you see X.

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Re:Trello uses an icon font and so can you by WickyNilliams on Friday February 01, 2013 @06:04AM (#5150181)
It doesn't look great that's for sure, but you can still tell what the icons are i.e. it's good enough.

If you're designing things such that a missing icon causes the UI to be incomprehensible, you're probably designing it badly

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Re:Trello uses an icon font and so can you by minimaxir on Thursday January 31, 2013 @09:57PM (#5148934)
Fair enough. It's a compromise.
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Re:Trello uses an icon font and so can you by huhtenberg on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:06PM (#5147088) 

  The urge to plug your blog resist you must.
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Re:Trello uses an icon font and so can you by minimaxir on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:14PM (#5147132)
The only reason I linked to my blog because it is directly relevant (discussion is about Font Awesome, and I've done a lot of development with it).

If there was a way to show off Font Awesome without providing a link to a case where I actually used it, I would. (screenshots won't be as effective since I incorporate on:hover effects.)

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Re:Trello uses an icon font and so can you by huhtenberg on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:27PM (#5147229)
Of course it wasn't the reason nor was it the only one. Please. We are all adults here, we all want to piggy-back on HN traffic, but - c'mon, your blog is not a notable example of the use of Font Awesome "in production".
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Re:Trello uses an icon font and so can you by scott_s on Thursday January 31, 2013 @04:43PM (#5147689)
I think that "Hey, I did something relevant to this discussion!" is a valid reason to link to something of yours. People do it with coding projects all the time.
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Re:Trello uses an icon font and so can you by huhtenberg on Thursday January 31, 2013 @05:11PM (#5147809)
Sure, but in this particular case it's a triviality.
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Re:Trello uses an icon font and so can you by pretoriusB on Saturday February 02, 2013 @11:18AM (#5156335)
I want the 30" of my life lost for reading your comment back.
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