Is Astronomicon fonts a good option?

[afucher]

AstroChart was built using pure svg for symbols, included house numbers.
Roberto Corona created the astronomicon-font to be used in Astrolog (an open astrology software).

Today to add a new symbol we need to create the svg, get path, and include manually checking some magic numbers to place them correctly. Astronomicon has already a lot of symbols, more than we have today!
For new symbols, if needed we can check with Roberto to add, or we can use svg for them.

The font is OFL and should not impact the project.

Open questions:

• How to distribute the font with Astrochart?
• It will need a breaking change? Or it will be transparent for users?
  • The symbols will change, they can be very similar, but they will change.

[wwmadmin]

+1 for astronomicon font.

I don't believe changing the icons would constitute a breaking change - as long as no code / config changes needed by consumers

Let me know if we can help with these changes.

[andandio]

Will this impact the CUSTOM_SYMBOL_FN in settings?

[afucher]

Will this impact the CUSTOM_SYMBOL_FN in settings?

@andandio it depends on how we will implement it, but I do not want to remove this settings to not break any existing use cases and also to keep this feature that allows more customization.

[monolithed]

In my opinion, the biggest issue is the manual scaling via SYMBOL_SCALE and POINTS_TEXT_SIZE. Ideally, the scaling should be automatic.

One possible solution would be something like:

preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 ${width} ${height}"

Here's a workaround:

.chart {
    aspect-ratio: 1 / 1;
}

.chart svg {
    width: 100%;
    height: auto;
}