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fonticons VS FontForge

Compare fonticons VS FontForge and see what are their differences

fonticons logo fonticons

Web fonts made easy from the makers of Font Awesome

FontForge logo FontForge

Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux
  • fonticons Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-07-20
  • FontForge Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-10-14

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FontForge videos

FontForge Master Class Part 1 - Install & Intro

More videos:

  • Review - Introduction to FontForge
  • Tutorial - Turn your handwriting into a font! (Calligraphr/Fontforge Tutorial)

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to fonticons and FontForge)
iPhone
100 100%
0% 0
Design Tools
10 10%
90% 90
iPad
100 100%
0% 0
Image Marketplace
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, fonticons seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 2 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

fonticons mentions (2)

  • Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
    > bundle it with something like https://fortawesome.com/ Using FA as a CDN is not GDPR compliant, either. Generally speaking using any public CDN is not GDPR compliant. If you _could_ self host the files, then you can not meet the necessity test required for any of the relevant legal basis in GDPR art 6(1). Google Fonts and FA are worse, because the personal data is shipped off wholesale to the USA. Neither FA or... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
  • Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
    +1 It's not even clear if using Google Fonts is GDPR compliant (since you're leaking the fact that your visitor has visited your website): https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1495 Even if you do want to use your own custom pretty font on your site, just self host it, or bundle it with something like https://fortawesome.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

FontForge mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of FontForge yet. Tracking of FontForge recommendations started around Mar 2021.

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