What is iconic for?

[curvedmark]

Does it mean to help user create icons?

Why not create a font-face function so the user can use whatever font she wants?

I'd be happy to add a font-face function if you think it will be worth it.

[tj]

yup that's what it's for, i'd be down for abstracting that out a bit though like you say

[curvedmark]

Just realize a font-face mixin is going to have a lot of arguments: font-family, multiple srcs, font-style, font-weight, font-stretch, etc. Any suggestions on the API?

[curvedmark]

oh, one more thing. do you approve the logic used in compass? I'm going to shamelessly copy that if you think what they did is right. :)

[curvedmark]

btw, they only support font-family and multiple srcs. I'm not sure if we should copy that too or support everything documented in w3c.

[tj]

hmm probably best to keep it simple for now, I haven't seen the compass one

[curvedmark]

Actually, the only part in @font-face that needs abstraction is src, if you look at this syntax. So maybe we can just create a mixin for src and not wrap the whole @font-face rule? For example,

@font-face
    font-family Geo
    font-style normal
    font-src myfont-webfont

font-src is a mixin that produces font urls for different font types (and if support-for-ie is false, it doesn't produce url for eot font).

What do you think?

[kmiyashiro]

If you want to make it better than compass/fontsquirrel, allow definition of font-weight src files so you don't have to use different font-families for different weights. This keeps it simple for the developer.

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201012/font-face_tip_define_font-weight_and_font-style_to_keep_your_css_simple/

[curvedmark]

@kmiyashiro I don't think this is something should be handled in the framework layer. You can easy do this

@font-face
    font-family 'DroidSerif';
    font-src DroidSerif-Regular-webfont
    font-weight normal;
    font-style normal;
@font-face
    font-family 'DroidSerif'
    font-src DroidSerif-Italic-webfont
    font-weight normal
    font-style italic
...

I never knew this technique though. Thanks for link.

[notslang]

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