Material Design Icons/Fonts

[Jason Campbell]

I am aware that we are able to use these as icons, but they are also available to use as a font. How can this be achieved?

https://design.google.com/icons/

Thanks

[Jason Campbell]

The icon object is on the tool pallet. An icon is just a static image in ParaSQL, however you can place an invisible button(transparent colors) on top of the icon to give it functionality. You can also use special symbols for buttons, what I do is go to any google doc, on the insert menu, select special characters. Find a symbol you like and click it, this will write it to your doc, from there I copy it and go back into paraSQL and paste into edit label for the button. 

This method may work for inserting the material fonts, I am trying to find them hosted as a font on the web to copy from. It says this line of code is needed:

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons"
      rel="stylesheet">

https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/blob/master/iconfont/MaterialIcons-Regular.ttf

[Jason Campbell]

I got it to work, but only in an HTML object.

1. Create an HTML object
2. Replace default code with: 

1. <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons"
         rel="stylesheet">
   

1. <i class="material-icons">icon_name</i>
2. You specify the icon by replacing icon name with the icon name from: https://design.google.com/icons/
3. make sure to replace the space in a 2 word name with an underscore
   

A feature request for this to work as the button label.

[Robert Dyas]

You will see ParaSQL add support for material design icons on buttons sometime in Q2.

[Jason]

Great news, thanks