Hi, Jonathan: Love the idea. I have been using the C4A icon font plus a few extras in the Preference Terms Dictionary. Have you given any thought to ligature support?
Cheers, Tony On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Jonathan Hung <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > In the Fluid project, we have been using font icons widely in our UI's > over the past year. Currently, when a project needs icons we: > > - duplicate a font from another project; > - create a new font from scratch; > - or mix-and-match existing glyphs with new glyphs by either importing > multiple fonts in the markup, or by creating another font set that contains > all the glyphs. > > The unintended consequence is that this creates a maintenance issue when > designing, deploying, and using icon fonts. > > Dana, Justin and I discussed this and would like to put forth the > following proposal for discussion: > > 1. Create a new repository on github which stores SVG files used to > generate fonts. > 2. Use a grunt plugin (like grunt-webfont > <https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-webfont>) that generates fonts > from SVGs > > Using github helps solve the maintenance issue, and the grunt plugin helps > with the deployment of fonts. > > This system should also be able to handle generation of multiple icon sets > from a configuration file, and allow users to specify their own Unicode > PUAs (the unique IDs used in CSS to reference a specific glyph) so that > icons have predictable and stable implementation in deployment. We will > need to investigate these requirements more closely. > > I have filed this issue / proposal under > http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-5555 > > If a reasonable solution can be found, a similar approach could be > implemented in other projects. > > We welcome your comments. > > - Jon. > > -- > > *JONATHAN HUNG* > > INCLUSIVE DESIGNER, IDRC > > > > *T:* 416 977 6000 x3951 > > *F:* 416 977 9844 > > *E:* [email protected] > > > > *OCAD UNIVERSITY* > > Inclusive Design Research Centre > > 205 Richmond Street W, Toronto, ON, M5V 1V3 > > > > www.ocadu.ca > > www.idrc.ocad.ca > > _______________________________________________________ > fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, > see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work >
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