fontawesome instead of iconic?

[optikfluffel]

What about switching from Iconic to Font Awesome? it has way more icons and you could easily use Bootstrap CDN (or an equivalent) if you don't want to host the font files yourself.

[notslang]

sure, wanna make a PR for it?

[optikfluffel]

Do you think using the CDN by default or including the font files itself would be the better option?

[notslang]

i'd go with just including it... when you're developing without internet access having stuff connected to a CDN can be annoying

[optikfluffel]

good point 👍 I'll send a PR later this evening or so ^^

[yoshuawuyts]

@optikfluffel Have you sent it in yet? It's been a month since that 'evening' :)

[optikfluffel]

oh sorry xD Berlin is still melting at 37°C :D maybe i can update to the latest 3.2 and open the pull request if it's getting below 30°C here xD

[yoshuawuyts]

Haha, sounds good! So we'll be seeing a PR tonight? (Lucky you by the way, Amsterdam is so rainy right now ☁️ 💧 ☁️)

[optikfluffel]

I just fell asleep yesterday xD After my dayjob I'll open the PR ^^

[optikfluffel]

I'm not sure wether I should include a demo.html with the fontawesome css file or not, is that necessary?

[disfated]

I believe prebiult icon libraries are quite out of the date. The future is for IcoMoon.

[notslang]

I agree that prebuilt icon libraries are not the future, but I disagree that IcoMoon is a viable alternative. Perhaps something like IcoMoon... such as an opensource library for building custom icon-fonts using only the icons that are needed. But IcoMoon is a closed-source service, and not something that I would want to rely on.

Also, I question if a specific icon-based font really belongs in nib. Nib focuses on general helpers and doesn't seem to give people a specific style... it is "style-agnostic". And a builder for icon-fonts seems even further outside the scope of nib... that would belong in a project like roots.

What we could do in nib is provide helper methods for including icon-fonts... but (correct me if I'm wrong) I don't think we want to go down any of those other routes.

[disfated]

Open source alternative would be awesome...
Btw, IcoMoon author promised to publish it's sources after he will finish "entirely new version of the IcoMoon app, which is a hundred times better"...