Sass icon fonts

Sass 3.2 integration for modern icon webfonts.

Elusive - 271 icons, Aristeides Stathopoulos, SIL license, native at ?px
Entypo v2.0 - 241 icons, Daniel Bruce, SIL license, native at 40px
Entypo Social v2.0 - 46 icons
Font Awesome v3.0 - 249 icons, Dave Gandy, CC BY 3.0, native at 14px
Typicons - 88 icons, Stephen Hutchings, CC BY-SA 3.0, native at 24px
Foundation Icons v2 - General set icons, ZURB, MIT Open Source License, native at ?px

Why is it needed?

The Sass/CSS files that these fonts provide usually give you a lot of cruft, and defines all the classes in one giant file.

Me, I prefer to not have them in my CSS files unless I need them.

Usage

First, include the font-face definition somewhere like so:

@import font-awesome
+fa-font

Then use the *-icon mixin:

button.add
  +fa-icon(plus, 24px)

Mixin usage

Each of the files provides a *-icon mixin:

+fa-icon(music)
+fa-icon(music, 24px)        /* 24px size */

It also accepts some keyed arguments. You can mix and match these together.

+fa-icon(music, 24px, $color: #333)
+fa-icon(music, 24px, $margin: 3px)    /* Margin-right */
+fa-icon(music, 24px, $shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(black, 0.2))    /* Text shadow */

You may also specify a $top value to compensate for any mis-alignment. This nudges the icon by that many pixels from the top.

+fa-icon(music, 24px, $top: 2px)

See the individual files for more info.

Why?

So that you define icons in your CSS, not in your HTML.
So that your CSS becomes leaner by not adding definitions for icons you don't use.

Sass_icon_fonts uses Sass placeholder classes to make sure that you don't get CSS definitions for unneeded buttons. You see, this modest snippet:

button.add
  +fa-icon(plus)

button.delete
  +fa-icon(trash)

...produces this output CSS below. Note that there isn't anything else here but the two buttons. Compare this with font-awesome's default Sass file :)

button.add:before, button.delete:before {
  line-height: 1em;
  font-family: FontAwesome;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
  display: inline-block;
  text-decoration: none;
  vertical-align: middle;
  text-rendering: optimizeLegibility !important;
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased !important; }

button.add:before {
  content: "\f067"; }

button.delete:before {
  content: "\f014"; }

Dev notes

To contribute, just edit the .sass files. The icons.json and index.html are all auto-generated.
See icons.json for a manifest of available icons.
Typing rake updates the index.html reference.

Acknowledgements

Actual font files are not part of this project, and are available in their respective licenses.