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Font Awesome 3.1 Released – 54 new icons, stacked, rotated, and flipped styles

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Nice! Some really good new icons.

Nitpick: I would prefer the icons on the front-page - I am always pulling up the homepage to scan through the list of icons.

Feel free to bookmark the icons page. :)

Like the additions, but going to have to agree... liked it better when it was all one page rather than having to scroll back to the top and click back and forth between pages... I often used the page for reference when scanning icons and for example usage.

There's a cheatsheet page for that :) http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/cheatsheet/

Are submissions for new icons not being accepted anymore? I remember reading that anyone could offer up their icon (in the right format, of course) and it would at least be reviewed. I now only see that people are allowed to request icons, but not actually make them (http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/community/)...

Awesome, I've had a lot of trouble getting stacked icons to work on my own (e.g. putting a filled disk below an icon has a lot of uses). Great feature!

The spinning icon still makes Chrome max out the GPU on the retina macbook though. One instance of it is enough to send my GPU temperatures in the high 70's, worse than a Youtube video.

I looked into this quite a bit. It's a chrome thing. No other browser has this problem. I'm still digging, but haven't found a solution yet.

You should report it as a bug at crbug.com if you haven't already. Sounds like something they would fix

Yeah I figured. Thanks!

It looks great! Strange that you added 4 new chevron icons { icon-chevron-sign-left, icon-chevron-sign-right, icon-chevron-sign-up, icon-chevron-sign-down} when it seems that they could been a single icon-chevron-sign, recreated by the new icon rotation statuses {icon-rotate-90, icon-rotate-180, icon-rotate-270}.

Rotation doesn't work in IE7 or IE8 yet, so I wanted to try to find a balance.

If anyone is curious as to why there is an icon-maxcdn, I'm guessing that it is probably because they offer free CDN hosting of FontAwesome on http://www.bootstrapcdn.com

@michaelbuckbee oh you know it ;)

Here's the "What's New" page, which actually shows the changes in question:

http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/whats-new/

I wonder if they could use Unicode icons in place of some normal icons.

I like the spread of Unicode icons and I like font awesome.

Unicode with font awesome fallback would be ideal.

Agreed. There's an open issue for this, and I think it's a great idea.

Very nice update! Pity they didn't add any Chinese social network icons this time (Weibo, Renren, Tencent, QQ) Has anybody seen any of these icons as a web font?

That is awesome! We was missing a ticket-icon today at work, and discussed what to use instead, with this new release we don't have to do anything :)

Surely you're making a custom font with the icons you need, rather than publishing the whole thing? In which case you can supplement the fontawesome icons you're using with any icons that you're missing (such as the ticket icon from Entypo that the fontawsome one looks like an exact copy of.)

That is quite clever, I didn't know that you could do that. I don't know much of our integration of FontAwesome, I do mostly backend related stuff, and argue icons with the frontend guys :)

Check out icomoon.io which lets you do just that (create a site specific font, not argue with the frontend guys ;-) ) There are others (such as fontello.com), but icomoon is probably the most comprehensive.

There's a lot of potential in stacked icons, although I'm curious to see how it interacts with CSS styles.

Another CDN that has it: http://gcdn.org/

Looking at the github repo, there are a ton of icon requests.

Yes, there are.

This is like Christmas! More icons. Thanks!! :-)

Great job Dave. <3

Nice!

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