Fontastic vs. Fontello

  • Resolved nickignite

    (@nickignite)


    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    Any chance of adding support for Fontastic in addition to Fontello in the future? They organize SVG icons to fonts much better than Fontello as well as keeping the original SVG’s in a better format (Fontello frequently merges SVG paths destroying various icons that Fontastic keeps intact). In addition Fontastic is also free and has a login to keep your custom packs saved and organized.

    Fontastic organizes the packs pretty similarly…

      Fontastic:

    [Zip]
    — style.css
    — [fonts]
    —– fontname.eot
    —– fontname.svg
    —– fontname.ttf
    —– fontname.woff

      Fontello:

    [Zip]
    — [css]
    —– animation.css
    —– fontname.css
    —– fontname-codes.css
    —– fontname-embedded.css
    —– fontname-ie7.css
    —– fontname-ie7-codes.css
    — [fonts]
    —– fontname.eot
    —– fontname.svg
    —– fontname.ttf
    —– fontname.woff
    —– fontname.woff2

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by nickignite.
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  • Thread Starter nickignite

    (@nickignite)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Just for reference. Each site without any modification when downloading from Flaticon…

    Fontastic:

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    Fontello:

    View post on imgur.com

    Obviously it could be fixed for Fontello but the whole point of using this plugin is to be faster than adding in the icons via code.. the amount of time to fix the SVG’s for Fontello would be more than adding the icons from Fontastic in via functions.php code.

    Plugin Author Michael Bourne

    (@michaelbourne)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Nick,

    Thanks for the suggestion. While I can appreciate the difference in output, my initial reason for not going with Fontastic was due to them being inactive since 2014, both on their website and their social media. If enough people ask for it, I will certainly look into adding it in a future release.

    Thread Starter nickignite

    (@nickignite)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hey Michael,
    Thanks for the reply. Completely understand and that makes sense. What if instead of structing it for specific site output structures an alternative upload method is made?

    IE: upload fontello zip OR upload a new font manually (upload CSS, tff, oweff, etc. ) On a single form then submit to upload. Basically would allow for universal use of any font icon generator.

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