Provide SVG icon to be used in SVG element as an alternative of Font Icon

[SuperPat45]

Hi,

I found two interesting blog posts:
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/seriously-dont-use-icon-fonts/
https://css-tricks.com/icon-fonts-vs-svg/

It may be wonderful if fontawesome has ability to provide SVG icons to be used in SVG element as an alternative of the classic Font Icon.
Example:
<svg class="icon"><use xlink:href="path/to/icons.svg#search"/></svg>

[tagliala]

Take a look at this repo: https://github.com/encharm/Font-Awesome-SVG-PNG

[SuperPat45]

Take a look at this repo: https://github.com/encharm/Font-Awesome-SVG-PNG

This project is a good start but it seem to generate individual SVG files only... and I prefer my page does not download multiple files for icons.

[Crissov]

It’s quite trivial to convert fonts/fontawesome-webfont.svg to a proper (non-font) SVG file. SVG Fonts have been dropped from SVG 2.0 anyway.

[tagliala]

@SuperPat45

there should be an .svg sprite on that repo: https://github.com/encharm/Font-Awesome-SVG-PNG/blob/master/sprites.svg

Unfortunately the repo is out of date, and I cannot submit a PR there at the moment

@dominykas @Rush could you please help us?

[Crissov]

Single-file SVGs are now available in /sprites/, so this issue should be closed. @tagliala

[tagliala]

@Crissov thanks for the heads up