sebastiencs / icons-in-terminal

Use any fonts in the terminal without replacing or patching
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Consider using optimised replacements for Devicons and Mfizz #15

Open Alhadis opened 5 years ago

Alhadis commented 5 years ago

First of all, thank you for using the file-icons font! 😀 I'm thrilled to see my work travel this far... never would've expected those icons would one day reach people's terminals. 😉

Now then, I see that you're using the DevIcons and MFizz icons. It may interest you to know there are cleaner, optimised variants of them called DevOpicons and MFixx. These are drop-in replacements with consistent sizes and alignment — you might find they'll look nicer when paired with icons of other icon-fonts. Not to mention they're much lighter in filesize; compare an 86.2 KB TTF to the 123 KB original. With no loss in quality, might I add.

DevOpicons uses codepoints that match those used by Devicons. MFixx, unfortunately, uses different codepoints due to MFizz randomising theirs for each new font release (something they reportedly have no control over). However, MFixx's codepoints are guaranteed not to change — there may be one or two icons that're missing (as the font was optimised in early-ish 2016); let me know if an update is needed upstream.

Again, thanks for the great work!