Font Awesome

[Scott Rossi]

For folks who have a need for a font managing app, you might look into
Linotype FontExplorer X.  This is a commercial app that works a lot like
iTunes and is excellent for managing and previewing fonts.  In addition to
the current paid version, Linotype produced an older free version for OS X
which is no longer supported but still works:
<http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/Linotype-FontExplorer-X-Download-1050
3.html>

I have been using the free version for years and it has worked perfectly for
me (not sure if there are any issues on OS X Lion).  It is able to preview
all characters in fonts, including the high value characters in Font
Awesome.

The current version of FontExplorer X for Mac and Win can be found here:
http://www.fontexplorerx.com/

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design



Recently, Charles E Buchwald wrote:

> OK, that's odd... here's what I see in PopChar:
> http://buchwald.ca/lc/PopCharScreenShot.png
> 
> - Charles
> 
> P.S. I guess it would be nice to expand the LC character viewer...
> 
> On 2012-07-04, at 1:04 PM, Guglielmo Braguglia wrote:
> 
>> Mmm ... strange ... have you scrolled down on the character pane and selected
>> Unicode on top ?
>> 
>> Look this print-screen : http://www.braguglia.ch/filechute/PopCharScreen.jpg
>> 
>> Guglielmo
>> 
>> 
>> On 04.07.2012 19:53, Charles E Buchwald wrote:
>>> Hi Guglielmo,
>>> I think I used to use a version of PopChar several years ago...
>>> OK, I've downloaded the trial. Looks useful.
>>> If I select FontAwesome from within PopChar, I'm still only seeing those 57
>>> characters. I suppose these are the ones with low unicode values?
>>> Is there some trick to PopChar that would allow me to view "high unicode
>>> values"?
>>> 
>>> I did find this:
>>> http://rorohiko.blogspot.mx/2011/11/i-am-using-lion-where-is-my-trusted.html
>>> ... with instructions on setting the native character viewer to show the
>>> Unicode tables.
>>> And also many useful subsets I didn't know about, such as "Sign/Standard
>>> Symbols" and "Pictographs"
>>> 
>>> Still not seeing the full unicode character set with a specific font,
>>> though.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?
>>> 
>>> - Charles
>>> 
>>> On 2012-07-04, at 10:30 AM, Guglielmo Braguglia wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Charles,
>>>> normally I use also PopChar (http://www.ergonis.com/products/popcharx/) and
>>>> he correctly show the unicode characters ...
>>>> 
>>>> Much better than the native character viewer ... but ... try before buy ...
>>>> ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> Guglielmo
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 04.07.2012 17:22, Charles E Buchwald wrote:
>>>>> So for those of us without FontLab Studio, is there a Mac utility that is
>>>>> useful for showing unicode values?
>>>>> Or perhaps someone has created a LC stack for doing so?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I was just looking at the Character Viewer built in to OS X Lion, but it
>>>>> does not show unicode values... unless of course I'm missing something,
>>>>> which is probable.
>>>>> 
>>>>> - Charles
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 2012-07-04, at 1:06 AM, Guglielmo Braguglia wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Jacque,
>>>>>> the FontAwesome.ttf that you find into the font folder is NOT empty ...
>>>>>> just appear empty if you use quick-look, but I opened the font on Mac
>>>>>> with "FontLab Studio" and all characters are there, just with high
>>>>>> unicode values (most are between F000 and F0EA, plus one in F200).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hope this help ...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Guglielmo
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 04.07.2012 07:13, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>>>>>> On 7/3/12 6:15 PM, Charles E Buchwald wrote:
>>>>>>>> Whoops. Didn't mean to use that subject line... have to stop drinking
>>>>>>>> at lunch time... here's another try.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> A client just directed me to Font Awesome.
>>>>>>>>> http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
>>>>>>>>> I'm not familiar with Twitter Bootstrap, for which it was designed,
>>>>>>>>> but it looks immediately useful for LC.
>>>>>>>>> It's basically a very large monochrome icon collection in vector
>>>>>>>>> format, and also collected as a TrueType font.
>>>>>>>>> I expect it may be useful for both desktop and mobile development.
>>>>>>>>> Seems like it could interesting with the new field capabilities.
>>>>>>> Great find! I downloaded it but the ttf webfont file is empty and the
>>>>>>> desktop one has only a handful of icons in it. The PDF is okay but I
>>>>>>> can't extract the vectors from there. I'd rather have the font; anyone
>>>>>>> know how to make those other formats work on a Mac?
>>> 
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