Material Icons about google-webfonts-helper

[tmtron]

It seems that material icons is now part of google fonts: comment-ref

https://github.com/google/material-design-icons#using-a-font

so maybe now the font can be added?

[virgofx]

This is really needed. Any chance this can get included?

ping @majodev

[beatgrabe]

Why not simply npm install material-design-icons?

[virgofx]

If I needed local copy, one could do that ... this service offers way more functionality in terms of parsing the latest CDN versions hosted by google (material-icons) is also hosted by google but not included in this project. It should ... so we can use same mechanism.

[andreineculau]

I guess this implies a bit of extra code, since the icon font is not served via Google Fonts https://fonts.google.com/?query=material

[virgofx]

Well ... what's weird: It doesn't show up in the google fonts list there; however, it is part of the API and static backend referenced the same way as other fonts on fonts.google.com

https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons

[DanielRuf]

Bump.

I am also interested in the material icons.

It seems like this project is dead, maybe someone else can fork it and continue development?

Thank you.

[xchellx]

Well ... what's weird: It doesn't show up in the google fonts list there; however, it is part of the API and static backend referenced the same way as other fonts on fonts.google.com

fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons

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Since Material Icons is now part of Google Fonts, it now has a page. However, it strangely is not the normal page where you can download subsets, nor it it named "Material Fonts". It's just named "Icons".
See here:
https://fonts.google.com/icons
Source:
https://material.io/blog/google-fonts-material-icons

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This tool shows no results for "icons" and "Icons" so this must be a special case. Also something interesting happens: the fonts.googleapis.com link will react to subsets (&subset=cyrillic, which exists!), text weights (:italic,bold,bolditalic) but says the specified weights don't exist (and there is no way of knowing without a proper Google Fonts page), and to browser user agent changes (woff2 -> woff1).

[tmtron]

When you read this thread, then maybe this npm package is useful for you: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@material-design-icons/font
It is always automatically updated and includes the woff2 files of the icon fonts.

[pbov]

Would be great to have this font included in the helper...