An icon font that displays analog clock faces for time stamps using CSS and @font-face.
Analog-Clock-icon-font is a custom icon font that creates visual analog clock faces for displaying time stamps on websites. It transforms standard `<time>` HTML elements into scalable, CSS-stylable clock icons using `@font-face` and pseudo-elements, providing an intuitive visual representation of time while maintaining accessibility through graceful fallbacks.
Frontend developers and web designers who need to display time stamps with visual analog clock icons in a scalable, styleable way without relying on images or complex JavaScript.
Developers choose this for its lightweight, font-based approach that ensures scalability and easy CSS styling, along with robust browser support and progressive enhancement that guarantees time content remains accessible even when icons aren't displayed.
A set of icons for displaying a visual ("analog") representation of time stamps.
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Uses @font-face to deliver scalable icons that can be styled with CSS, ensuring they look crisp at any size without image files, as highlighted in the README's emphasis on scalability.
Implements :before pseudo-elements with graceful fallbacks, so time content remains accessible even in browsers that don't support the font, ensuring no extraneous HTML when unsupported.
Offers both server-side HTML generation and a JavaScript plugin for client-side injection, accommodating different development environments, as documented in the sample files.
Handles military time, overlapping digit notations, and single-digit hours, making it versatile for various time representations, explicitly listed in the README's 'Supports' section.
Glyphs are only available for every third minute, relying on CSS rotation which may not render accurately on all browsers or at small sizes, as admitted in the README to reduce font size.
Requires support for @font-face and :before pseudo-elements, excluding very old browsers or those with disabled features, limiting its use in legacy environments.
Last updated in 2016, so it may lack compatibility with modern web standards and browsers, and not receive bug fixes or updates, as indicated in the copyright notice.