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Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development

47 pointsby designatedInitover 12 years ago

5 comments

citruspiover 12 years ago
Anyone interested in using Icon Fonts should definitely check out [1] - it allows you to generate and download icon fonts by selecting vectors from different packs.<p>[1] <a href="http://icomoon.io/app/" rel="nofollow">http://icomoon.io/app/</a>
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primiturover 12 years ago
What, no FF Chartwell?<p><a href="http://tktype.com/chartwell.php" rel="nofollow">http://tktype.com/chartwell.php</a><p>As long as you can turn on ligatures in your font rendering API per-platform, this is a fully cross-platform solution to graphing, in a font file.<p>(Using printf's, basically, to do complicated graphs - absurd and awesome!)
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maratdover 12 years ago
Ok, I might be a bit slow. Can somebody explain to me the advantage of using a font file instead of a sprite png?<p>I understand that there would be advantages with a high resolution display. It would scale automatically. Anything beside that?
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jogloranover 12 years ago
I wrote a script which generates iOS tab bar icon-sized sprites from the Font Awesome icon font: <a href="https://github.com/jogloran/Font-Awesome" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jogloran/Font-Awesome</a>
nwienertover 12 years ago
This title is pretty poor, could we get it changed to "How to use icon fonts in iOS development and why they are useful" or something like that?
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