fa2png
Dev tools
asset generator
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
5 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, convenient tool for generating icon PNGs
From 4 comments
Awesome, I was actually looking for something to do this earlier today!
clark800 on HNI think using this will increase my mockup page speed a bit. Cool!
iekadou on HNNice utility to have !!!
jayyvis on HNvery cool!
SlAZ3 on HN
Objections
Name is unfortunate and could be misread
From 2 comments
fa2png is an unfortunate name for a project, really.
mahmoudhossam on HNIf I had to guess, maybe it looks a bit like the word "fapping"?
billpg on HN
Would prefer SVG output
From 2 comments
Make an SVG option, please.
antidaily on HNThis. From an perfectionist perspective - a font is a font, those were made for text. They're used for icons just because it's widely supported option that allows arbitrary…
drdaeman on HN
Resizing PNGs gives poor results
From 1 comment
Resizing PNGs? Works only reasonable if you make them smaller...
mkesper on HN
Requests
Add SVG output option
From 1 comment
Make an SVG option, please.
antidaily on HN
Support sprite sheet output
From 1 comment
This is great, but it'd be far better if I could put in multiple ones and get out a sprite sheet. I'll take a look at the repo to see if this is possible.
theg2 on HN
Support other icon fonts like Entypo
From 1 comment
Please do this with Entypo! I've been wanting to use their library forever, but it doesn't work on some machines. http://www.entypo.com/
mrchess on HN
Questions
Why use icon fonts instead of images
From 1 comment
I'm not much into frontend development, but AFAIU Font Awesome is a bunch of assets packed as a font [0]. Why is this is a good idea? Is it faster, smaller, more convenient,…
ansimionescu on HN
Is the source code available
From 1 comment
Hoped to find the code on GitHub, but couldn't. Any reason not to open source it? Seems like it would be an interesting codebase to take a quick look at.
davidcelis on HN
Alternatives named
Fontello
From 1 comment
Somewhat relatedly: http://fontello.com. Helps you generate your own icon fonts using a smaller selection of icons instead of using the entire Font Awesome library, which can be…
sinak on HN
IcoMoon
From 2 comments
I personally prefer IcoMoon which generally has a lot more options and their font builder (for custom glyphs) works much better.
cobalt on HNOr you can just use any imaginable icon set in IcoMoon, export the PNGs and color/resize them in Photohop.
jhki on HN
Fontcustom
From 1 comment
If you haven't already, check out http://fontcustom.com/. Its like Font Awesome, except you drop a directory of SVGs at it and it generates a ton of fonts. The project could use…
bradgessler on HN
Grunticon
From 1 comment
I would suggest using Grunticon as opposed to font awesome. https://github.com/filamentgroup/grunticon
patrickocoffeyo on HN
Font Pestle
From 1 comment
I put together Font Pestle for this purpose: http://miln.eu/fontpestle/
graham-miln on HN