I created a ticket with Font-Awesome to add the lemmy icon.
Why?
I went to add my new Lemmy profile to my website’s social media links, but – err – there’s no icon for Lemmy in my “social media links” wordpress plugin.
I looked around and saw that a lot of plugins on popular platforms (wordpress, drupal, etc) just use the Font Awesome library for icons.
So, if the lemmy icon gets added to Font Awesome, it means that the lemmy icon will suddenly become available in thousands (millions?) of software/apps (themes, plugins, etc).
The Process
For context, it took them about 1 year to add the mastodon icon to Font Awesome.
I’ve never done this before, but it looks like you can either pay them $300 or vote in their Icon Requests Leaderboard for new icons to be added:
Until the leaderboard is up, how about we show them community interest and let’s all give the GitHub issue a thumbs up reaction/emoji?
Side note: It’s much better to use SVG for icons than icon fonts. They are heavy and some browsers/extension block third-party fonts and the user won’t see anything.
I mean I can’t even verify my lemmy profile on mastodon so will take some time
