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Icon font for Decker

A topic by 1jss created Nov 15, 2022 Views: 263 Replies: 3
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I'm creating an 16x16px icon font for Decker based on my sweet-sixteen icon set. I have chosen some of the icons that I think would be useful for fellow deckers, but there are still empty slots (as you can see in the image). Feel free to suggest an icon you would find useful or vote for one of the sweet-sixteen icons to be added to the decker font.

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Nice! I could imagine lots of places this sort of font might be handy.

Hiya! Maybe, we can try to convert kenney.nl icon packs? To reduce your workload and also simplify/get the basics down faster? Btw, does this bitmap format have a size limit on the no of glyphs?

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That's a good resource! Many of those are not 1-bit, which would require loads of work.

(Ab)using the font type to display icons gives us 96 icons per font if I remember it correctly. 

Don't know if there is a size limit on the fonts, but it handles variable widths within the same font, which is great for icons like theese: https://kenney.nl/assets/bit-input-prompts-pixel-16

An alternative could be to load all icons into individual canvases and put them in a deck. That would enable more than 96 icons, but is not as easy to move between decks. I haven't created any modules yet, so there might be a good solution to this.

Another alternative, that might actually be the best one, is to simply store the icons as gif-files in an folder and drag them onto Decker when needed.