Icon request: icon-spinner-alt + Spinning speed and direction classes

[ioleo]

Hi,

I would like to request an alternative spinner icon, similar to .

Also, it would we nice if you could choose the direction and speed of rotating by adding special classes, eg:

• icon-spin-cw spinning clockwise
• icon-spin-ccw spinning counter-clockwise

And special classes to control the speed if animation (some icons look better when they spin slower/faster):

• icon-spin-x1 5s animation
• icon-spin-x2 4s animation
• icon-spin or icon-spin-x3 3s (default) animation
• icon-spin-x4 2s animation
• icon-spin-x5 1s animation

[claviska]

+1 for an alternative spinner.

[JayHoltslander]

+1 for the exact alternate spinner.

[gopkumargopi]

+1 for this alternate spinner. I think the opacity of the frames (petals of the spinner) is a big challenge. In that case I suggest to keep the outer radius intact by decreasing the width of each petals from outside in.

[tagliala]

AFAIK there is no transparency in webfont but only in svg

@davegandy ?

[jawise]

+1 for this feature...This would be super handy for snappier feeling interfaces

[DeathByPenguin]

+1 for this.

[kevinhikaruevans]

+1

[AndrewEastwood]

+1

[AndrewEastwood]

I think it's better to use shorten class names for that like:

fa-spin-x[2..5]
fa-spin-ccw

[AndrewEastwood]

and the fa-spin-x3 could be as the default fa-spin

[ioleo]

@AndrewEastwood good idea with short class names. Updated the issue description.

[anthonator]

👍 variable spin speeds

[norn]

+1 for speeds

[bogini]

+1

[anthonyboutinov]

+1

[Findiglay]

+1

[Kledal]

👍

[sensibleworld]

This is a quick update to let folks know that we’re refining our icon request workflow behind the scenes, and as part of that we’re going through all open requests and filing them into several new buckets to be addressed.

In this case we’re closing this issue because we think it might be too niche, or just not a good fit for Font Awesome.

But if you feel really strongly about it, feel free to make your case by submitting a new issue.