Font Awesome 3.2 Released – 58 new icons, SCSS support, many new brand icons

Re:Font Awesome 3.2 Released – 58 new icons, SCSS support, m... by bluetidepro on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @03:24PM (#5870097)

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.

[1] http://icomoon.io/

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Re:Font Awesome 3.2 Released – 58 new icons, SCSS support, m... by fortawesome on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @03:27PM (#5870111)

I made Font Awesome, and I concur! If you really care about load times and performance, definitely subset your icon fonts!

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Re:Font Awesome 3.2 Released – 58 new icons, SCSS support, m... by buren on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @04:05PM (#5870373)

Thanks for an awesome libary

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Re:Font Awesome 3.2 Released – 58 new icons, SCSS support, m... by mindctrl-org on Thursday June 13, 2013 @10:10AM (#5874094)

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.

[1] http://fontello.com/

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Re:Font Awesome 3.2 Released – 58 new icons, SCSS support, m... by pdog on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @03:59PM (#5870341)

You can subset Font Awesome. Check out icnfnt, for example:

http://www.icnfnt.com/

It's currently at version 3.0.2, but I'm sure they'll update it to 3.2 soon.

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Re:Font Awesome 3.2 Released – 58 new icons, SCSS support, m... by tagliala on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @06:56PM (#5871262)

unfortunately icnfnt at the moment has some major issues, including lost of pixel perfection when subsetting https://github.com/johnsmclay/icnfnt/issues/5#issuecomment-1...

it seems that the author will address these issues soon (issue #19).

i wanna thank him too for his efforts

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