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fiona_lewis37
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11h ago
My custom icon font broke in Safari because of one missing glyph name
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the_diana
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1d ago
I thought ligatures in code fonts were a gimmick until I tried coding with them for a week
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simon_black
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3d ago
Paid $40 for a tiny script that renames my font exports, best money I ever burned
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mitchell.shane
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3d ago
A buddy at the Seattle meetup showed me his icon set was just 3 SVG paths per glyph, I'd been hand-tracing 40+ points this whole time
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cameron_craig
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5d ago
Took me 6 hours to center one icon in an SVG viewBox, and I am not sorry I did it by hand
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michaelcoleman
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5d ago
TIL hand hinting a font at 16px beats any auto hinting script I have tried
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taylor_moore
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7d ago
Found a hand-coded pixel font on an old Atari demo disc at a garage sale in Boise
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rowanp15
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9d ago
Spent all Tuesday rebuilding my icon grid in a blank HTML file, and now the export finally lines up
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rowanp15
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10d ago
Serious question, did anyone else learn about font hinting way too late? I felt like a total fake
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hugo37
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12d ago
Thought variable fonts were overkill for my 4 weight icon set, then a user asked for a thin version
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webb.stella
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14d ago
Serious question, I called SVG icons overkill for 2 years and 40 files, then I rebuilt my nav bar
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shanenguyen
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14d ago
Hit 300 icons in my set and realized the grid was hurting me, not helping
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simon_chen
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15d ago
Spent $75 on a fancy variable font tool and still hand-kerned 40 pairs myself
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the_brooke
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16d ago
Just learned the hard way that CSS grid auto-flow dense reorders my tab order, and now my custom icon picker is a keyboard trap
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webb.stella
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17d ago
Hot take: checking my icon grid at 400% zoom in Figma caught a 0.5px sliver on 38 icons
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