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by fortawesome 3484 days ago
This is a great article. Some of these are already on the agenda for FA5, but there's some new stuff there for us too. We'll dig in and it's a TODO on the FA5 roadmap now. :)

Another thing I'm super excited about is stray points in vectors. We found some new tools for Illustrator that make this a LOT easier and will have a very real impact on bandwidth as well.

Super fun.

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(Oh and FA5 Pro CDN will allow loading just the icon categories you need. And for real granular control, FA5 Pro includes a desktop subsetter for all backers too.)

Edit: Fixed wording for clarity.

Hey, glad you liked it! I tried to get in touch but I guess the message got lost in your noisy inboxes — must be a busy time for you folks. Ping me if there's anything I can help with!
I like and use font-awesome. Thanks and keep up the awesome work. Are there advantages to Wenting Zhang's [approach](http://cssicon.space)? Is there any way of lazy-loading - i.e. just accepting that some people - either through ignorance or laziness will load the entire set - and only use a couple of icons? Even if this were just some tool to craft the url it might get us on the road to that petabytes per day (really?).