Fonts download and icon suggestions

[splash21]

I've set up another download on the site. Now there are two buttons;

• Download the plugin + fonts bundle
• Download just the fonts

This way, I can update the fonts whenever there are new icons and you can just download them and re-install on your system.

Here are the previous suggestions - they are the first in the mobguicons-3 font;

If you post icon suggestions here, I'll pick them up and try to get them added..

[robl]

John, thanks for the additional icons.

I'll offer a few more suggestions of some common icons, that may be of interest to others.

• the " i in a circle" icon commonly used for an "info / about" function.
• The common iOS 7 arrow head / chevrons: <, >, ^ and V
• A large " + " icon, used commonly to add some sort of item (add a new record, add a field to a record), etc.
• Media player control button icons - Play, Record, Stop, Pause, Repeat, Random, Go to end of current track, go to beginning of current track. (could also be used to browse a series of cards or records from a database)
• AirPlay icon
• AirDrop icon
• Camera icon (without the sync arrows), similar to that used in Apple's Messages app
• Telephone or Telephone Handset -- i.e. an app that lets you make a phone call, such as an address book or customer database
• A key (for security, login, passcode locks, etc)

R/ Robert

[splash21]

We're part way there - I've just updated the fonts download...

[Simon]

OK is this Splash21 (JC) guy not damn incredible?
Keep up the good work.

Simon

[MarcVanCauwenberghe]

Nice work John!

[Neurox66]

Excellent!
Nice Work!

Paolo

[splash21]

Thanks! - I assume the fonts are working correctly and not causing any problems? If so, I think we've got a real time saver as far as creating buttons goes.

[robl]

Great work, John! Fonts are working great so far and scale nicely as needed.

Only thing that's getting a little cumbersome is the Font combo-box menu. When changing from one font to another, the combo box is populated with every font on my system and starts at top in alphabetical order. I have several hundred fonts, so there is a fair bit of scrolling to get to "mobguicons". After working on a project last night with about 40 buttons on various cards, it became a bit tedious to scroll through the entire list each time for both the normal and touched states.

I'd suggest a way to filter the font list with only names which starts wit "mobguicons" or maybe only font names containing the text "icons". Could this be some sort of preference setting?

[splash21]

I know exactly what you mean - I've got quite a few fonts as well, but I just type in mobguicons-x then copy and paste it - I don't use the scrollbar

Maybe clicking on the label next to the combo box could cycle through each mobguicons font that it available in the list of fonts?

[robl]

I know exactly what you mean - I've got quite a few fonts as well, but I just type in mobguicons-x then copy and paste it - I don't use the scrollbar

Maybe clicking on the label next to the combo box could cycle through each mobguicons font that it available in the list of fonts?

That may be a nice option, but thinking about the future, maybe it should cycle any font that has "icons" in the name, not just mobguicons. I can foresee a developer purchasing additional icon fonts from a 3rd party or having some SVG icons they turn into fonts with a fontello type service that they may want to use in their apps, i.e. "robl-icons1.ttf"

[splash21]

Yes - that sounds like a more flexible idea. It's on the todo list!

[splash21]

Clicking on the font labels to the left of the font combo boxes for the icons now cycles through any fonts on your system with the word "icons" in the name. I've added some more suggested icons to mobguicons-3.

[Simon]

I may be too late but, how about a database icon?

Simon

[splash21]

The icons are an ongoing thing - I'll just keep adding them as time allows, so db icon is now on the list.

[Simon]

Maybe asking too much

I don't really even need any of them yet, but I figure it's worth a try
Pretty sure these are not duplicates.

Wow free icons... Wicked!

Simon