An Awesome Font
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An Awesome Font
I am aware that LiveCode leverages an Open Source font called 'fontawesome'
https://fontawesome.com/download
But the 'funny' thing is that there is a considerable difference between the glyphs in the versions of fontawesome available from that website:
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and those inwith the 'fontawesome.ttf' font contained inside the LiveCode .pkg file on my computer:
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I'd be grateful if someone could explain the relationship between those fonts and how their licensing works.
https://fontawesome.com/download
But the 'funny' thing is that there is a considerable difference between the glyphs in the versions of fontawesome available from that website:
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and those inwith the 'fontawesome.ttf' font contained inside the LiveCode .pkg file on my computer:
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I'd be grateful if someone could explain the relationship between those fonts and how their licensing works.
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Re: An Awesome Font
This message removed as improved stack posted below.
Last edited by richmond62 on Sat Jan 08, 2022 5:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: An Awesome Font
I think the font used in LiveCode is an older version of FontAweome. Probably v4 or v5.
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Re: An Awesome Font
My first picture is fontawesome version 5.
And, as both versions 5 and 6 beta seem full of smileys . . . I doubt very much that version 4 would have been much different.
And, as both versions 5 and 6 beta seem full of smileys . . . I doubt very much that version 4 would have been much different.
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Re: An Awesome Font
It looks like FontAwesome has a "regular" icon set and a "solid" one. My bet is that LC is using the solid set from an older version.
https://fontawesome.com/v5/cheatsheet
https://fontawesome.com/v5/cheatsheet
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Re: An Awesome Font
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Re: An Awesome Font
I checked out your stack. This was my initial result in LC 10 DP1 in Kubuntu 20.04 64 bit:
I had to install all three FontAwseome 6 Free edition OTF files from the site to get the list to fully populate with these icons, but here's the after:
I had to install all three FontAwseome 6 Free edition OTF files from the site to get the list to fully populate with these icons, but here's the after: