FontAwesome 5 support

nicrats

Any idea if and when FontAwesome 5(.1) will be supported? (For groups etc)

jordanjay29

Beta 8

meetdilip

Is it necessary to add support to those versions ? They have a lot of icons. Wouldn't that increase page load time ?

nicrats

meetdilip They have a lot of icons

That's excactly why I want them, they have got more icons

jordanjay29

meetdilip That's probably a better discussion for the issue, but the merges have already been made at this point.

Pollux

nicrats

meetdilip They have a lot of icons.

That's excactly why I want them, they have got more icons

A large number of icons is of no value unless these icons are actually used on the website. That holds true for both versions of FontAwesome.

I'm considering stripping down the font files to the icons used on my website. That's less complicated than it seems at first. BirdFont allows you to remove single characters (icons) at will and save the result. Then go to Fontsquirrel's webfont generator, upload your modified FontAwesome's ttf file, and generate the rest of the needed file formats. Then replace them in your /assets/fonts folder.

Ralkage

Also see this ?

meetdilip

If you ask me, Flarum should use custom SVG icons and then offer support for whatever version of Font Awesome through plugins. That will help unload unnecessary page load time.

jordanjay29

meetdilip Like I said, you'll have a far better time putting this discussion on the issue where the devs have already contributed.

meetdilip

jordanjay29 Didn't follow. Do you want me to talk about it on Github ?