High five to Dave Gandy and the Font Awesome team:
The Font Awesome 5 Kickstarter raised $1,076,940 with 35,549 backers, making it the most funded and most backed software Kickstarter of all time.
What’s do the funders get? 1,000 more …
Icons. They’re popular. They help complement content (most of the time). And yet they can be a pain in the neck.
Once you’ve decided on a format (SVG or icon font?) and designed the set, there are still …
Solid basics of an SVG icon system in this guide from Florens Verschelde, mixed with some good tricks: the two-color trick, pre-loading the sprite, and using custom properties for unlimited color variations. Also an interesting bit about using multiple methods …
I’ve talked a good bit about SVG’s <use></use> around here and using it to build an icon system. The beauty of <use></use> is that you can reference just a part of some SVG defined elsewhere and draw just that …
SVG is an image format for vector graphics. It literally means Scalable Vector Graphics. Basically, what you work with in Adobe Illustrator. You can use SVG on the web pretty easily, but there is plenty you should know.…
