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by alz 14y ago
thank you for your comment, and the link, really interesting points!
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by alz 14y ago
this is true, although even when gzipped svgs are typically about double the size of ttfs re browsers, yea none of them passed 100% of the tests, but admittedly that chart is about 10 months old
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Svgs are cool, but icon fonts are just 10% of their file size(blog.pictonic.co)
6 points by alz 14y ago|6 comments
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Free font icons - nosql dbs, linux distros & browsers(pictonic.co)
3 points by alz 14y ago|0 comments
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Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop(youtube.com)
2 points by alz 14y ago|0 comments
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Icon fonts could speed up your page loading time by 14% compared to images(blog.pictonic.co)
3 points by alz 14y ago|0 comments
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Hacker news vs reddit for product launches(blog.pictonic.co)
3 points by alz 14y ago|0 comments
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by alz 14y ago
omg... *facepalm that was an accident. the fonts have been tested extensively also in firefox, we'll update that soon
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by alz 14y ago
ah, yea thanks, that's good to know! that link is fascinating btw
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by alz 14y ago
hi there, what browser are you using there?
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by alz 14y ago
hi there, thanks for the feedback! you're right there is no reason to have the lines over free icons. We'll consider this for the next update. Regarding the private use area, actually pictonic font icons are mapped to the private use area f
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by alz 14y ago
hi there, here is a screen shot of the programming language set: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3737990/Screen%20Shot%202012-08-21%...
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Pictonic adds 1000 new font icons, including a free programming language set(pictonic.co)
55 points by alz 14y ago|26 comments
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Pictonic doubles font icons to 2000, including 52 free programming lang icons(pictonic.co)
3 points by alz 14y ago|0 comments
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by alz 14y ago
hi there, i just wanted to let you know that we've tested these on ios, and in an upcoming release we are going to make it a piece of cake to integrate pictonic's icons into your ios projects. alan
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by alz 14y ago
Interesting, yea I guess that's exactly what would be required to achieve this, a function capable of reliably translating between path data formats and also canvas instructions. Path data can be annoying though, so many ways to express the
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by alz 14y ago
ok thanks, we'll look into this, in the meantime, it should line up pretty nicely, and its easy to mod with css
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by alz 14y ago
facepalm ...we'll add this for sure
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by alz 14y ago
Btw We can also provide individual icon svgs with the font pack if this is useful
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by alz 14y ago
Hiya, thanks for the feedback! what info would the comparison give? Did you want to compare kerning and baselines?
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by alz 14y ago
Thanks, this is really good feedback. We will definately look into it
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by alz 14y ago
Good points, thanks
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by alz 14y ago
Totally : > I won't say yes until i've seen and tested it though
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by alz 14y ago
ah right, yea that's a bit quirky, we'll fix that
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by alz 14y ago
good question. the font icons appear beautifully on retina displays, because they're vector. can't think of any reason they wouldn't work with a webview, but haven't tested this. in terms of native apps, i don't know, but will look into it
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by alz 14y ago
hi there, i worked on pictonic. thanks for the feedback. the widget should pause on hover, i'll look into that. it only shows a small random sample from the full library though. since these are premium icons we have some terms and a non-pub
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Generate iconfonts from probably the largest premium vector icon set on the web(pictonic.co)
41 points by alz 14y ago|27 comments
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Show HN: pictonic.co: Build your own icon font from 1000+ hand crafted icons(pictonic.co)
1 points by alz 14y ago|0 comments
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by alz 14y ago
In the test, the node code is actually calling an asynchronous function fs.readFile on every single request: https://gist.github.com/2650401 Even with os caching there is still quite a bit of overhead there. Would be interesting to see th
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Jquery ui seems to be down(jqueryui.com)
1 points by alz 15y ago|0 comments

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