Hacker GitHub

← All repos

FortAwesome/Font-Awesome

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 77,017 JavaScript

The iconic SVG, font, and CSS toolkit

41 mentions on Hacker News by 38 people: 11 stories, 30 comments · first 2012-03-07 · latest 2026-04-12

Mentions per year 41 mentions · busiest year 2013 (10)
20082026
  1. …was private[0]. I've not kept up with the drama, so I have no idea if that is still the case. [0] https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/12199#iss...
  2. …A good example of what I mean is here (fresh on my mind because I was looking at it yesterday): https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/js-p... Somewhere this file defines an exported function called `icon`, but it took me…
    comment by ratorx · 2021-12-26 · in JavaScript for Impatient Programmers
  3. …they've updated the main docs to 5.x yet their master branch is still on 4.x without a 5.x release. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
    comment by Hedja · 2018-02-01 · in (New) Font Awesome Website
  4. …and there are 3rd party lists you can use that are more aggressive and font-awesome is in some. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/wiki/Troubleshoo...
  5. …now I know why they've held back so many useful icons from the free version. This one's a classic: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/1958
    comment by Walf · 2016-10-25 · in Font Awesome 5
  6. …JavaScript embed, and it was closed. I tagged in to another issue to make the same point, https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/9245#issu... Still no answer. Am I the only one that cares that the current state of FontAwesome…
    comment by spdustin · 2016-10-24 · in Font Awesome 5
  7. …explains though, it would need to be used in text for the Unicode committee to accept it. [1] https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/4147 [2] http://codepen.io/denwo/pen/azjXzL
  8. …to use their script, when they removed the actual easiest way, which referenced using a public CDN. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/9245
  9. …then get a pretty good idea of the most desired features by sorting the issues by most commented. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/CONT... https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues?q=is%3Ais... Would also be…
  10. It is a known issue on FontAwesome and scheduled for the next release. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/7357
    comment by bbrks · 2015-09-14 · in Ask HN: New G+ Logo?
  11. …on SourceCode Pro font. Can I have a request? Is there any possible to include font awesome ( https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome ) because of this under terminal? ( https://github.com/arialdomartini/oh-my-git ). Currently my setup…
    comment by jenhsun · 2015-05-31 · in Office Code Pro Updated with Italics
  12. Still waiting for icon-blog though... https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/455
    comment by jpswade · 2014-07-21 · in Font-awesome: 71 New Icons in 4.1
  13. That's a bit old news. 4.1 has been out since May. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/releases
    comment by patman81 · 2014-07-21 · in Font-awesome: 71 New Icons in 4.1
  14. I was hoping to find sport icons added on this release. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/767
    comment by Abundnce10 · 2014-05-17 · in Font Awesome 4.1 released
  15. Seriously? They still haven't got a blog icon? [0] https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/455
    comment by jpswade · 2014-05-17 · in Font Awesome 4.1 released
  16. It has been: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/2402
    comment by nat · 2014-05-17 · in Font Awesome 4.1 released
  17. Still no infinity symbol? Much sadness :'( https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/1647
  18. …made it out to be. i wonder if ionicons will switch in the future? here is the font awesome issue: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/568
  19. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/2193 Url should be /fonts, not /font. In variables.less, change @fa-font-path to: "//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.0/fonts"
    comment by studiofellow · 2013-10-24 · in Font Awesome 4 released
  20. Can't do pull requests on the graphics? https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/pull/1823 Can't download the SVGs? https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/font...
    comment by ceejayoz · 2013-10-24 · in Font Awesome 4 released
  21. No, they were changed for performance reasons which is a needed and important improvement: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/568
    comment by nwienert · 2013-10-23 · in Font Awesome 4 released
  22. More speed? Looks to be from the following change: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/568 Any others?
    comment by thezilch · 2013-10-23 · in Font Awesome 4 released
  23. There are ten new icons, but still no database icon :( http://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/139
    comment by applecore · 2013-10-23 · in Font Awesome 4 released
  24. Here: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues?page=1&st... https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/pulls Result: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/graphs/commit-ac...
  25. Still missing the HackerNews icon :) https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/1197
  26. …that with the new version, you may be able to just modify the icons.yaml file, and re-build. See https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/src/...
  27. …icon packs (e.g. font-awesome) no longer have to hack around[1] the bootstrap style? [1]: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/buil...
    comment by chancancode · 2013-05-20 · in Bootstrap 3 is mobile-first
  28. …the icons instead of Glyphicons. I don't think the developers are interested in fixing it, though: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/81
  29. …as undo/redo. I'm using FontAwesome, and they will hopefully add a proper undo at some point ( https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/16 ). The actual undo/redo implementation comes from the browser, so it is a bit hard to do…
  30. …So I don't forget, want to add a couple of issues to request the icons on the GitHub project? https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues