On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Rachel Farrand rfarrand@wikimedia.org wrote:
Please join us on google hangout June 11 @ 1900 UTC < http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=WikiFont&iso=20...
for the following Tech Talk:
*How, What, Why of WikiFont* *Presented by Core Features Engineer: Shahyar Ghobadpour, Visual Designer: May Galloway and Mobile Apps Engineer: Monte Hurd*
*Wikifont-glyphs is a collection of icons that have been used in our projects, made into a font. We will be showcasing how you can take advantage of this icon font set, how to request for more icons and contribute to the set. *
If you want to watch live you can join the hangout here https://plus.google.com/events/chpgv8usjd6dn38on07njjk28hg and follow along and ask questions in #wikimedia-office on IRC.
More info about Wikifont here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Wikifont
The WebFont Tech Talk will also be available for viewing later here https://www.youtube.com/user/watchmediawiki on the mediawiki youtube channel.
Thanks!
Rachel
Thank you very much for the interesting talk, everybody. I do have a follow up question though, that I didn't think of during the talk. It was indicated that the glyphs will occupy the private use space. Many symbols already have their own codepoints over severals blocks, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Symbols . Would it make sense for those symbols that already have a code point to use the already defined code point rather than a private use code point? I'm thinking about the star, black star, pencil, paperclip and gear for example, but I think the same goes for most glyps on the image in the github page.
--Martijn
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