Teeworlds - bridge

why does it have to be within a font?

01:58

that prevents people from switching fonts as they like

01:58

what's the downside of icons like we've done until 0.7?

01:59

I think I'm the one who introduced UTF-8 code in Teeworlds to display an icon and that was because I didn't find someone to draw one

i thought using icon font is the point of not breaking font changing

02:05

we already have multi fonts. and drawing an icon can be done by adding a unicode char in front of the string.

02:06

plus it will share the already allocated font atlas without needing a new texture handle and vram.

02:06

i mean if it is next to a string i don't see the down side.

02:08

plus it is a great chance to move the X and the cog icon to the private use area page of unicode to further prevent icon breaking for ppl changing fonts.

I support icon fonts

Is it common for games/software to compile a custom font to display icons?

its a web thing for sure

i think it is pretty common for icons that need to layout like text. controller buttons, objective icons and such. and we are adding icons besides the text.