Font-awesome: Fa-eye regular is only available for PRO

Created on 2 May 2018 · 8Comments · Source: FortAwesome/Font-Awesome

Today I am doing the transition from FA 4.7 to 5.0. When upgrading, it surprised me that fa-eye regular is only available as PRO variant, while the fa-eye-slash regular is available for Free.

Should this be considered as a bug? Clearly the fa-eye regular is the same as 4.7's fa-eye icon. If so, please make this icon Free again!

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Oh don't thank me...@tagliala had the clear vision to bring this to our attention (wondering if the puns will work for our Italian friend) Perhaps even cause an eye-roll? 🙄

robmadole on 2 May 2018

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Hi!

Thanks for being part of the Font Awesome Community.

I think this request is legit

@robmadole

5.0
❌ https://fontawesome.com/icons/eye?style=regular <-- PRO
✅ https://fontawesome.com/icons/eye-slash?style=regular <-- FREE

4.7
✅ https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/icon/eye/ <-- FREE
✅ https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/icon/eye-slash/ <-- FREE

Use case: switch between fa-eye and fa-eye-slash.

tagliala on 2 May 2018

Yep, I agree with this. We should make eye regular part of Free and then change the shim so that eye forwards to far fa-eye. I'll forward this on to @talbs and see what he thinks.

robmadole on 2 May 2018

@robmadole thanks for the ping. Yep, the ayes have it in my book (sorry, bad pun but couldn't resist). I'll get those changes into our icon build-system shortly for a near future release. 😄

talbs on 2 May 2018

Oh don't thank me...@tagliala had the clear vision to bring this to our attention (wondering if the puns will work for our Italian friend) Perhaps even cause an eye-roll? 🙄

robmadole on 2 May 2018

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I was just wondering this myself - I'd love for this to be added back in.