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Font Awesome 3.0 is out

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I love Font Awesome, thanks to all the contributors!! One of the first things I replace from Bootstrap is the dependence on png icon sprites.

Bootstrap 3 and Font Awesome 3 should just marry each other and get it over with.

Bootstrap should include vector icons by default. In the era of HiDPI displays, bitmap icons look just plain ugly (unless served in double resolution). Nobody should use them. (Not to mention save of bandwith!)

Bootstrap 3 is switching to glyphicon fonts, which I think look better than the FontAwesome stuff.

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2012/12/10/bootstrap-3-plans/

You can see the bootstrap 3 branch in the bootstrap github project.

> Free, as in Beer

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> SIL open font license, MIT license for code.

That sounds like free-as-in-freedom to me, not just free-as-in-beer.

Well, it's both.

They just happened to have a beer pint icon but no freedom icon.

Discussion from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4997388

People are really getting carried away with these glyph fonts lately.

In Firefox go to Options > Content > Fonts > Advanced and disable "allow pages to chose their own fonts". This is how some people will see your web page. Hardly a graceful downgrading.

Don't forget to slap the "best viewed in [my favorite] browser" icon on your pages while you're at it.

I think Font Awesome is, well, awesome. I've also been a big fan of what IcoMoon (http://icomoon.io/) is doing, if you want to go a more custom route!

I don't think it's awesome and find its name rather annoying. It's something that people who don't know about 2x images or don't realize how few newer browsers lack svg support find appealing.

I'm not sure what your issue is, Font Awesome supports IE 7+, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome. I haven't seen any issues with compatibility at all.

So many awesome new icons, thanks for your work. Now I need to add these to Jetstrap's icon list...

And issue #222 still open :-(

Is it possible to combine fonts from several packs and create a custom set?

Is this what you're talking about? http://icnfnt.com/

How do the spinning glyphs work?

It's using CSS animations.

  animation: spin 2s infinite linear;

For me the spinning wobbles on Chrome 23.0.1271.97 and doesn't work at all on IE9 despite the site banner claiming IE7 support?

There's a disclaimer about lack of support for css3 animations in IE7-IE9 further down the page

I think that the refresh icon is designed off-center causing it to spin off of its axis.

Have to say, the symbol for spinner icon is poor choice. It doesn't look good when animated like that; typically the individual dots grow/shrink sequentially (impossible to implement in CSS as long as the icon is a single element).

It may be my browser, but they look pretty naff.

For some reason the website represents them in true 1998 fashion using such a tiny font size, but they actually look very nice in bigger sizes. (Especially on HiDPI display!)

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