Feature Request: Integrate popular web fonts as face?

[hitchhiker]

Hi,

I'm no font expert, so apologies if this is impractical or impossible. Would it be possible to create versions with something like 'open-sans' or some of the other popular web-fonts as the fa font-face?

This would enable us to reduce asset load times, for instance I currently need to load open-sans + fa, using only the fa icons, but not the face.

Thanks for the amazing work you've done, you've saved so many people so much time!!

Cheers,
Frank.

[CoDEmanX]

If you load Open Sans and Font Awesome via a CDN, it's probably faster than a special combined single font on an own server.

[hitchhiker]

Yes, caching allows a percentage of clients to load almost instantly, but this is basically an optimisation question / feature request.

[tagliala]

it will also impact on people that are not using open sans at all. Moreover, open sans comes with different styles and charsets: https://www.google.com/fonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Open+Sans

which one should be included? In this way you probably need to make another request to load missing styles

IMHO this should not be a core feature, but if there is a way to "merge" fonts with icon fonts it could be documented in a wiki

[iegik]

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/wiki/Merge-FontAwesome-with-any-other-font

[hitchhiker]

Fantastic :) thanks

[tagliala]

Closing here, there is also a wiki to implement this functionality

It is worth to mention that now Font Awesome has its own font :)