Last modified: 2014-10-23 05:03:34 UTC
Instead of childish colorful icons (like the user icon next the the user name) use a flat icon font like Font Awesome ( http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/ ). It has all advantages of a font: resize, color, css pseudo classes etc.
(In reply to Subfader from comment #0) > Instead of childish colorful icons (like the user icon next the the user > name) use a flat icon font like Font Awesome ( > http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/ ). > It has all advantages of a font: resize, color, css pseudo classes etc. Hey Subfader, we have something like that at Wikifont that features all that you mentioned. https://github.com/munmay/WikiFont
Oh great. Please extend! I miss brands and simple stuff like arrows. Until then I will use Font Awesome :)
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Design/WikiFont&action=history > "no longer planned to move into core". Well.
(In reply to Subfader from comment #0) > Instead of childish colorful icons (like the user icon next the the user > name) use a flat icon font like Font Awesome ( > http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/ ). > It has all advantages of a font: resize, color, css pseudo classes etc. I don't know what colorful user icon you're referring to. If you use the latest git version of MediaWiki (or almost-latest, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/ , you'll see a low-key dark-gray user icon for the Vector skin). (In reply to Subfader from comment #3) > https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Design/WikiFont&action=history > > "no longer planned to move into core". > Well. Yes, we decided not to use fonts for now (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/502321). However, we still want to establish a consistent set of icons that we use (which will probably be based on the set at Design/WikiFont, and we recently merged a standard icon class (mw-ui-icon) into MediaWiki core.
Clarifying that for now this is a WONTFIX for web. I.E. MediaWiki itself will not use an actual font file for now, for the reasons given in that wikitech link. However, we do still want a consistent palette, and I believe the Wikipedia mobile app will be using fonts.
