What is Font APEX?
Font APEX is an all new icon library designed to complement Universal Theme. It was designed as a replacement for Font Awesome, the web's leading icon library, and therefore contains almost all of the Font Awesome icons, re-drawn on a 16x16 grid as line-icons, to match the aesthetic we wanted. We wanted to make it a seamless switch to go from Font Awesome to Font APEX, and therefore use the same "fa" prefix for the icons, making it easier than ever to move to entirely new icon library.
What's new in Font APEX?
Out of the total 1000+ icons, there are over 400 icons unique to Font APEX including many that are more common in business and web applications. In addition, Font APEX comes with a number of customizations built-in, enabling you to easily control the size, animation, rotation, and even add modifiers on top of icons. You can try customizing your icons using the Icon Builder in this Universal Theme sample application.
What is different compared to Font Awesome?
While Font APEX contains many icons from Font Awesome, there are notable differences:
- Icons are drawn as line-icons rather than solid fills.
- Icons are drawn to fit a 16x16 grid.
- Several less common icons (particularly a number of branding icons) have been removed
- There are more customizations built in, such as animations, rotations, and modifiers are built in