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[FEATURE] Add external font libraries to be used as icons for buttons (fontawesome)
Describe the feature After using Streamdeck combined with companion lately i noticed it is a bit of a hassle to create PNG images for the buttons. It might be a nice idea to implement some widely available icon-fonts like Font Awesome in order to be used on the buttons itself.
Usecases Font Libraries like FontAwesome have pre-defined images readily available for various usecases (lightbulbs, signals, switches, you name it). Therefor it could be used to give a nice addition to the buttons, without ever needing to make own PNG's
Please note, next to FontAwesome there are multiple of really cool and open source fontlibraries which support icons.
Thought it would be helpful to add some potential sources to the ticket:
- https://thenounproject.com/icons/
- https://lineicons.com/
- https://materialdesignicons.com/
- https://www.flaticon.com/icons
- https://feathericons.com/
- https://linearicons.com/free
- https://icons.coreui.io/icons/
- https://icons8.com/line-awesome
I think the challenge here will be how should this work Are you thinking of choosing a single icon from fontawesome to be a central image, with the companion text written below?
In my mind it would work if there is a 70% screensize filled with an icon of choice, maybe even in a color of choice and use the additional 30% of the screen with the label. Like "Lightbulb" as an image, and below that the value of brightness "55%". It would make it look a bit nicer, since you would not have to write out the descriptions and have a neat image.
Does #1774 take care of this issue?
Though I would still like the limit to go a bit below 36, at least 32 imo. That way you can use 18px text comfortably.
We've been thinking of using a vector based text rendering system and also tried for a short period but it has been too difficult to get this working cross platform. For that reason Companion still is using bitmap based fonts. From time to time I think of revisiting that part. In between I want to mention that the Companion fonts (except 7pt) have already many Icons available. You can acces them with Unicode just like smileys. https://github.com/bitfocus/companion/wiki/Text-input
