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

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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/

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

Thanks for an awesome libary

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.

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

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/

What's actually new:

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

There's actually a whole new build system, where LESS, SCSS, and CSS are completely driven off a single icons.yml file. Hooray for no more copy and paste!

Still missing the HackerNews icon :)

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/1197

Good call. Moved the issue into the 4.0 milestone.

I basically took the democratic approach for this release by hitting the issues with the most +1s.

Thanks Dave!

Also updated the comparison tool here: http://tagliala.github.io/vectoriconsroundup/

Font Awesome is a real godsend when looking for simple and effective icons. It's neat to have most of what you need icon-wise all in one place.

Is it just me, or do quite a few of these look like they've been auto-converted from a bitmap, and picked up jaggies in the process (icon-windows for example)?

That's because it's a brand icon. I haven't made any changes to them at all, which means they're necessarily not optimized.

If you see some non-brand icons that look like they have issues, definitely let me know.

This is maybe slightly off-topic... but does anyone know of an icon-font for AJAX indicators?

FontAwesome has a single one which is tries to rotate, but which isn't quite the same (and relies on newer browsers).

I'm thinking a font with perhaps twelve lines/spokes for each position, where you'd superimpose all twelve, and then use CSS to animate their colors/opacity only (not actually moving/rotating them), but with a JS fallback.

I was really hoping to see some sport/athletic icons... maybe next time.

Dave is doing a fantastic job here! His 'democratic' approach is killing it. The time difference between 3.0 -> 3.1 to 3.1 -> 3.2 was really good, so happy that he's doing this! :)

Great! A question, is there any way to generate a custom version Font Awesome where we select icons that we want to use?

As new versions appear, there are many unused icons which adds unnecessary size increase.

Definitely. The guys over at http://www.icnfnt.com/ are a couple of versions back, but the IcoMoon app works pretty darn well: http://icomoon.io/app/

Anyone else have any other favorite options?

FontPrep has built in subset options, which work really well for subsetting FontAwesome.

I'll give away a few free licenses for anyone curious, just hit me up on Twitter. @brianmgonzalez

http://fontprep.com

Thanks for your answer and the project itself! I also know http://fontello.com/ however it seems like these projects are all lagging by a few versions back.

https://github.com/johnsmclay/icnfnt/issues/18

I think that with the new version, you may be able to just modify the icons.yaml file, and re-build.

See https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/src/...

Sadly, the icon font files themselves aren't yet driven off that. Just the docs, CSS, LESS, and SCSS!

Check out http://icomoon.io/ for this. It's a great app!

This looks awesome. I love the rotation, stacking, and the new icons. Keep continuing the innovation!

Is a amazing collection. But, i send DB icon few months ago but no add to collection, nobody need it ?

Thanks for the library. It rocks!

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