I love Font Awesome and use it all the time....but this campaign is to help fund development of a "somewhat faster" commercial licensable version of existing icons?
I would be a lot more apt to donate if this was just to help fund Dave to make more icons freely available.
Looks fantastic, and I love FA so thank you for that.
Probably too late for this feedback, but the pricing differentials between being a backer and just licensing it when it becomes available were too narrow to entice me to back it. I.e. The $30 savings by backing it now instead of (potentially) buying it outright later this year just wasn't enough savings to convince me to back it. You could read this two ways - lower the backer goal amounts, or increase the licensing costs. I think you could safely do the latter :)
Font Awesome will see just as much love, if not more than before. The last release, less than a month ago, had 71 new icons. The original Font Awesome isn't going anywhere.
Me too. Even if I never use this font, I've gotten enough benefit from Font Awesome over the past year that I feel like I should support this guy in continuing to do awesome things.
I like this idea (and backed it!) but I'd have liked if the fact it was going to be a commercial font was more apparent on the KickStarter page, as it feels a bit buried at the moment. I doubt this was deliberate, but I can say personally having the 'Font Awesome' brand being used so prominently made me think it was going to be open source.
The thing is font awesome scaled up well, but not down near as nicely. Black Tie seems to scales down nicely, but looks a bit too minimalist (or maybe just chunky) at larger sizes for my taste.
@fortawesome: Could we get some views that show true to size comparisons of the new font at a few different scales. Some overly large images of 4 of the icons just doesn't cut it near as well as seeing things how we would use them!
@fortawesome: See how you have the super large versions of your font's on the font awesome homepage? Make sure the new icons still look good that big!
I don't think they are unfinished, just a new art direction. But it seems to have less neutral style that before and that will reduce adaptability to its surroundings.
Actually yes they do! I have a few symbol fonts in my library that cost way more than he's asking for the 4 weights.
My personal hesitation isn't due to paying for a symbol font...I'm waiting to see a bit more of the font so I can decide if the style is neutral enough that I'll be able to use it in enough places to make the cost worthwhile.
I don't think it's really paying for 'font' symbols but paying for something that's easily droppable in your HTML using <i> tags. At least that's why I use FontAwesome.
[+] [-] jwarzech|11 years ago|reply
I would be a lot more apt to donate if this was just to help fund Dave to make more icons freely available.
[+] [-] fortawesome|11 years ago|reply
Supporting this will also give me more time to work on the original Font Awesome, too!
[+] [-] sutterbomb|11 years ago|reply
Probably too late for this feedback, but the pricing differentials between being a backer and just licensing it when it becomes available were too narrow to entice me to back it. I.e. The $30 savings by backing it now instead of (potentially) buying it outright later this year just wasn't enough savings to convince me to back it. You could read this two ways - lower the backer goal amounts, or increase the licensing costs. I think you could safely do the latter :)
[+] [-] sergiotapia|11 years ago|reply
On one hand, FontAwesome has been a champion worldwide for free, easily usable fonts, shouldn't the creator get some sort of compensation?
On the other hand, will FontAwesome be put away in the shed? Sort of like the Nginx free/elite-turbo-premium offerings.
[+] [-] fortawesome|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] toddynho|11 years ago|reply
It will be interesting to see the new weights/styles, and better scaling of BlackTie.
Good luck Dave!
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[+] [-] orillian|11 years ago|reply
@fortawesome: Could we get some views that show true to size comparisons of the new font at a few different scales. Some overly large images of 4 of the icons just doesn't cut it near as well as seeing things how we would use them!
@fortawesome: See how you have the super large versions of your font's on the font awesome homepage? Make sure the new icons still look good that big!
[+] [-] nbody|11 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] gojomo|11 years ago|reply
Pledge $299 or more: Choose an icon to be added to Black Tie OR the original Font Awesome - you decide one icon to be added, I do the design.
Pledge $999 or more: Choose 4 icons to be added to Black Tie OR the original Font Awesome - you decide four icons to be added, I do the design.
Pledge $1,999 or more: Your logo in Black Tie & the original Font Awesome. Must be square-ish, single color, & you must have the rights.
The corporate-logo option might be underpriced: 4/10 already sold.
[+] [-] applecore|11 years ago|reply
http://ionicons.com/
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[+] [-] Kiro|11 years ago|reply
How do you make something sub-pixel perfect? Is there some tool you can use or do you need to test on many different monitors/computers?
[+] [-] fortawesome|11 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] orillian|11 years ago|reply
My personal hesitation isn't due to paying for a symbol font...I'm waiting to see a bit more of the font so I can decide if the style is neutral enough that I'll be able to use it in enough places to make the cost worthwhile.
[+] [-] sergiotapia|11 years ago|reply