Somewhat relatedly: <a href="http://fontello.com" rel="nofollow">http://fontello.com</a>. Helps you generate your own icon fonts using a smaller selection of icons instead of using the entire Font Awesome library, which can be up to 253kB depending on your browser.<p>There's a great gem for using it with rails [1], a cli [2] and grunt task [2].<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/railslove/fontello_rails_converter" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/railslove/fontello_rails_converter</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/paulyoung/fontello-cli" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/paulyoung/fontello-cli</a><p>[3] <a href="https://github.com/jubalm/grunt-fontello" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jubalm/grunt-fontello</a>
If you haven't already, check out <a href="http://fontcustom.com/" rel="nofollow">http://fontcustom.com/</a>. Its like Font Awesome, except you drop a directory of SVGs at it and it generates a ton of fonts. The project could use help in a few areas including:<p>- Sprockets asset pipeline integration <a href="https://github.com/glaszig/compass-fontcustom" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/glaszig/compass-fontcustom</a><p>- A PNG sprite compiler for compatibility with IE8, Win7/8 phones, and older versions of Android.<p>I can't say enough good things about these projects.
I'd suggest putting example values inside input forms, not only as a hint in placeholder so sample preview could be generated instantly with only one mouse click. People are lazy now.
A friend of mine needed the same thing (font awesome as pngs) and he created a script. I helped a little bit and added a branch to work with other fonts as well. It was hacked in a day or two, after it served its purpose we didn't work on it, but if anyone finds it useful here's a link:<p><a href="https://bitbucket.org/selectnull/awesome2png" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/selectnull/awesome2png</a>
I'm not much into frontend development, but AFAIU Font Awesome is a bunch of assets packed as a font [0]. Why is this is a good idea? Is it faster, smaller, more convenient, something else?<p>0: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/15503304" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/a/15503304</a>
Really nice idea! There are often situations where a tool like this can come in handy.<p>However, maybe it is just me, but I find this writing style irritating. I find it a little bit creepy when a product starts adressing me from a first person view.
What a coincidence, I made the FA icons downloadable in 6 colors and 8 sizes just over this weekend as well [1]. One should note, however, that it's 99% odyniec's great script [2] and only 1% some trivial frontend/collection for both projects. [1] <a href="https://github.com/delight-im/Font-Awesome-PNG" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/delight-im/Font-Awesome-PNG</a> [2] <a href="https://github.com/odyniec/font-awesome-to-png" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/odyniec/font-awesome-to-png</a>
This is great, but it'd be far better if I could put in multiple ones and get out a sprite sheet. I'll take a look at the repo to see if this is possible.
Shameless plug:<p>This Android app I wrote serves the same purpose: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ly.jamie.fontawesomebrowser" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ly.jamie.fonta...</a><p>Source: <a href="https://github.com/jamiely/Font-Awesome-Browser-Android" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jamiely/Font-Awesome-Browser-Android</a>
Please do this with Entypo! I've been wanting to use their library forever, but it doesn't work on some machines. <a href="http://www.entypo.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.entypo.com/</a>
I have written an OSX app to convert icons from any TTY font file to PNG or svg <a href="https://github.com/shanzi/iconfontr" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/shanzi/iconfontr</a>
I would suggest using Grunticon as opposed to font awesome.
<a href="https://github.com/filamentgroup/grunticon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/filamentgroup/grunticon</a>
Hoped to find the code on GitHub, but couldn't. Any reason not to open source it? Seems like it would be an interesting codebase to take a quick look at.
In that one rare occasion where I had to convert a FA icon to a png file, I wrote a basic HTML page with the icon, screen captured it, and resized.<p>This seems better.
very cool - I would also like to drop the name of one of my favorite (free) icon sites IconMonstr.com and they basically have new icons every week SGV/PNG.
this is pretty awesome. been needing something like this every now and then. however, keep in mind there are free packages that provide similar artwork as font awesome in .png and .eps.