Font Awesome: free (CC BY 3.0) font icons for use in the style of Twitter Bootstrap

Just so laboratroy or designer sites that ever dovodilos to see with the style system Twitter Bootstrap, certainly remembers what it used icons by Glyphicons (120 pieces) for the design of the buttons and toolbars, and items in lists, and so on. Apply these icons for free and freely (on the license CC BY 3.0).

All these icons, however, have a common drawback: they are raster. Accordingly, if the icon has a diagonal or curved elements, then stretch this icon (large buttons or for retina display) will fail without objectionable loss of quality.

To overcome this deficiency the project intends Font Awesome, aims to develop a free and free (CC BY 3.0) a font that contains the same icons in raster and vector form. Icons ("letters") of the font can easily therefore take any size and any color. Moreover, they have not one hundred and twenty, a hundred and forty.

Font style files are included, allowing you to start using Font Awesome, Twitter Bootstrap without any much effort.

Finally I will say that for all his advantages in font compared to the raster, there are some drawbacks (e.g., inability to use translucent and gray-scale pattern elements which are used in some Glyphicons icons), but the shortcomings of these in Font Awesome has been bypassed relatively bearable.

Much in the display of the font will depend not even from browser and from operating system; however, this applies to any font, and it has been said a lot before (such as in published 15 Oct 2010 the article "Type rendering: operating systems" in the Typekit blog, provided with examples Yes the screenshots).

When enlargement of font sizes many differences of rendering more or less disguise, and the font looks like Avon

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Article based on information from habrahabr.ru

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