Details
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Type:
Bug
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Status: Closed
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Priority:
Critical
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: Framework, Infusion-Icons, Release
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Labels:None
Description
Currently in Fluid / Floe related projects, we are using an ad-hoc system to generate fonts: whenever a project needs a font, an existing icon font is duplicated, or another icon font is created from scratch. This creates a problem where icons are hard to maintain.
A possible solution (open for discussion and refinement):
- create a font project in github to store the SVG vectors used for font icons
- SVG files are not binary, so they can be versioned easily by github and still editable by vector editors
- use a grunt plugin capable of generating fonts from an arbitrary list of SVGs
- have an index file / contact sheet which shows all available icons.
There are some questions to address:
- How is it possible to maintain a font set for a particular project? i.e. Project A may use 10 of 20 fonts, whereas Project B may use 12 of 20. How is this information stored?
- How are Unicode PUA's specified for each glyph / SVG? Are PUA's globally unique in the font repository, or do projects define their own PUA's?
- If someone deletes an SVG from the repository, do the PUAs change automatically?
- Can Readme documentation be automatically generated for each font set? The readme would contain instructions on how to use the icon font in CSS/HTML, and list the PUA codes for each glyph.