From ee94715ba723dcb898c65bd2cc4aa767e73482b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Fidler Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 08:32:02 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Describe changes to xpm rendering of fonts. All these changes should address Issue #18 --- CHANGELOG.md | 3 +++ README.org | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index dd99c51..89fb45c 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/). - Allow desaturating and matching the mode-line face colors for xpm images. - Allow emojis to be used as mode-icons +- Allow font icons to be used without the font. +- Add gimp inferior buffer to generate images for mode-icons, + preferring the xpm format. ### Removed diff --git a/README.org b/README.org index 0fba777..5e7c177 100644 --- a/README.org +++ b/README.org @@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ Some of the modes that have icons instead of names now: - [[http://fizzed.com/oss/font-mfizz][Font Mfizz]] - [[https://icomoon.io/#icons-icomoon][IcoMoon]] - You need to have installed these on your system in order to use - these fonts, mode-icons will not do this for you. + The icons look the best if you have the fonts installed on your + system and mode-icons will not do this for you. * Installation -** manually +** Manually Place ~mode-icons.el~ somewhere in your =load-path= and copy the ~icons/~ directory there as well. Then =require= ~mode-icons~ in your @@ -86,3 +86,14 @@ and use the black and white image by setting: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (setq mode-icons-grayscale-transform nil) #+END_SRC +** Making some icons display better +Some icons are derived from a font, and display better if you have the +font installed. Without the font they look a bit jagged (For example +the save icon, the spelling icon, etc) + +[[http://i.imgur.com/zFNvAoz.png?1]] + +Once the fonts are installed, the anti-aliasing makes the icons look better: + +[[http://i.imgur.com/JkBMSPF.png]] +