Include fonts via feature flags in your Iced project!

use iced_fonts::{LUCIDE_FONT_BYTES, lucide::*};
    
fn view(&self) -> Element<Message> {
    row![
        git_branch(),
        git_commit_horizontal(),
        git_merge(),
        git_pull_request(),
        github(),
        gitlab(),
    ]
}

Include iced_fonts as a dependency in your Cargo.toml:

cargo add iced_fonts --features=full

Fonts can all be enabled with feature flags. All the fonts can be enabled with the full feature flag. By default there are no fonts added.

NOTE: By enabling a feature flag you add the full size of the font file(s) to your binary.

The Following are a link to the source followed by their feature flag name.

• Bootstrap bootstrap
• Codicon codicon
• Devicon devicon
• FontAwesome fontawesome
• Lucide lucide
• Nerd Fonts (Symbols Only) nerd
• Octicons octicons
• Pomicons pomicons

One problem people bring up is that they only need a few icons. So the macro used by this library is exported for public use. See the custom example. Make sure to use the macro that has the required text shaping your font needs! If it doesn't work at first try the advanced macro to use Iced's advanced shaping.

Enabling the advanced_text feature will give access to functions to help you construct advanced Text types to use in widgets.

Saddly some fonts are not supported because they are not given proper names in the post table. This is a failure of the font author and there is nothing we can do about these. We cannot generate/lookup names that are not in the font. The currently list of these follows

• Material Icons (avaiable via nerd font)
• Weather Icons (avaiable via nerd font)

If you would like to request a new font, please open an issue with the font's name and where to download the ttf file from.

Somethings that need to be done are.

1. Use basic shaping where possible, we shouldn't pay a fee we aren't required to.
2. Add more useful fonts if possible, this depends on if they have properly setup tables.
3. Look into svg support. Once a demo is done it's easy to make a proc macro for it.
4. Do magic $crate:: non sense to remove macro callsite requirement on iced_widget.