Hi Jeremy I experimented earlier with the Fontawesome font set in my TW. The icons are high quality and play well together with your existing icons (a few appeared not to align correctly when used alongside one another.)
My TW behaved nicely once I had installed Fontawesome into my OS, however visitors to tiddlyspot experienced problems as the plugin did not appear to function correctly for those without the font set installed. The Fontawesome fonts were easy to use in TW both for buttons and within the wikitext, and provided a rich choice of icons. The one problem I had was the necessity of re-stylng the icons for different sections of my TW (the existing icons are automatically re-styled according to the theme settings -- switching automatically from black to white, for example.) I feel that including a font set such as Fontawesome within the core would be a better approach than adapting a limited number of icons to svg. regards On Thursday, June 5, 2014 11:33:47 PM UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Matabele > > There's definitely demand for more icons. I'm increasingly thinking we > should adopt an existing icon library, rather than trying to assemble our > own. I think it will be difficult to maintain aesthetic integrity > otherwise. A switch to icon fonts could make sense because of the > difficulties of preparing SVG icons. The fontawesome WOFF font is 84KB, > which is temptingly small... > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Matabele <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Jeremy mentioned, in Tiddlywiki Hangout #48, that a library of images >> for buttons would soon be added to the core and invited submissions for >> this library. >> >> This would be much appreciated, as I find the adaptation of .svg images >> for use in TW5 to be a tedious process -- buttons end up the wrong size, do >> not resize well, have unexpected colours, and either do not position well, >> or do not look good next to the existing buttons. >> >> In addition to Ton's 'clone tiddler', 'close others' and 'close all' >> button images, which seem to behave well, I have found a need for the >> following: >> >> To be used alongside text links: >> -- an image indicating 'open slider' (I use 'caret down' from the >> Fontawesome font set) >> -- an image indicating 'close slider' (I use 'caret up' from the >> Fontawesome font set) >> -- an image indicating 'edit' (the existing pencil does not look good >> in this resolution and I use 'pencil' from the Fontawesome font set) >> -- an image indicating 'trash' (the existing trash can does not look >> good in this resolution and I use a 'trash-o' from the Fontawesome font >> set) >> -- an image indicating 'done' (I use a 'check-square-o' from the >> Fontawesome font set) >> >> For buttons: >> -- an image indicating 'todo' (I use a 'check-square-o' from the >> Fontawesome font set) >> -- an image indicating 'tab' (I use a 'folder-o' from the Fontawesome >> font set) >> >> The icons included in the Fontawesome font set appear to offer high >> quality icons that play well alongside the existing icons, but these need >> to be adapted into standardised .svg images suitable for TW5 >> -- http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/ >> >> Other possibilities: >> -- tag >> -- tags >> -- lock >> -- unlock >> -- calender >> -- search >> >> Please share your thoughts on your requirements -- hopefully the graphics >> wizards can then get to work on creating an awesome set of icons for TW5 :-) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
