The current goal is to move away from Dashicons as a web font and use an SVG sprite instead. This will be easier to contribute to, and easier to manage.
We discussed:
- There’s a mockup on Github for anyone who wants to contribute, which still needs more work: https://github.com/ryelle/WP-Dashboard-SVG
- The process for generating svgs: most vector editors support svg, so you can create/edit them directly. We want to stay with using Grunt to create the SVGs, and avoid using a 3rd party service.
- A style guide for making new Dashicons.
To do:
- The mockup still needs work for browser compat – @michael-arestad will add grunt tasks for optimization & fallback PNGs, @ryelle will work on the JS support for IE.
- Style Guide for icons, as a page on make.wordpress.org/design, following training’s example. @melchoyce, @empireoflight & @liljimmi seemed most interested 🙂
- Potentially create a walkthrough for creating/editing vectors in various programs (Illustrator, Inkscape, etc).
We’ll meet again next week, January 22, 2015 18:00 UTC .