[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26333: svg-painter.js and friends

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#26333: svg-painter.js and friends
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 Reporter:  azaozz          |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  high            |   Milestone:  3.8
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |
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Comment (by melchoyce):

 Related discussion: http://make.wordpress.org/ui/2013/05/30/the-mp6-team-
 has-been-working-on-recommendations/

 Summary: We thought that creating icon fonts might be too much overhead
 for some plugin developers, who could use SVG icons as a much simpler way
 to be MP6-compatible with their custom icons. Tillkruess put together this
 helpful guide for developers: https://github.com/tillkruess/MP6-Icon-
 Examples

 If we think creating icon fonts is simple enough that we can write up
 documentation for plugin authors to do it themselves, then let's go in
 that direction.

 Empireoflight created a great video tutorial for making Dashicons-style
 icons:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYAYZpSVbI&feature=share&list=UUmFVVQ7fcW2REzodxERiHHA
 Maybe we could see if he'd be interested in doing the same thing for
 creating an icon font?

 A problem we might run into is finding a reasonable recommendation for
 developers to create their own fonts. We've been using Glyphs, which is
 paid software, to create the initial .otf for Dashicons (which we then run
 through fontsquirrel for a webfont). Services like IcoMoon will let you
 create a custom icon font for free. Hoever, I think when we tried using
 that, we ran into some issues with IcoMoon actually resizing the pixel
 grid Dashicons was built on. This lead to some pixelated and distorted
 icons. We should give this a try again and see if it's still the case.

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