What is Cyborg?
It is a partial port of Android's VectorDrawable to iOS. It is intended as a replacement for UIImages, Icon Fonts, and Apple's PDF vector image option.
Cyborg is a tool in the Fonts category of a tech stack.
Cyborg is an open source tool with 289 GitHub stars and 17 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Cyborg's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Cyborg?
Cyborg Integrations
Cyborg's Features
- Full theming support of individual elements of an illustration, beyond simple image tinting or changing the text color in an Icon Font
- Ability to use one asset for both platforms, simplifying the design -> engineering pipeline
- Assets are resolution independent
- RTL support
- Easily convertible from SVG using Android Studio or third-party tools
Cyborg Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Cyborg?
Google Fonts
A library of 915 free licensed fonts, an interactive web directory for browsing the library, and APIs for conveniently using the fonts via CSS and Android.
Font Awesome
You can get vector icons and social logos on your website with it. It is a font that's made up of symbols, icons, or pictograms that you can use in a webpage, just like a font.
Typekit
It is an online service which offers a subscription library of high-quality fonts. The fonts may be used directly on websites or synced via Adobe Creative Cloud to applications on the subscriber's computers.
Typography
It is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. This term is also applied to the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters, numbers, and symbols created by the process.
JetBrains Mono
It is the free and open-source typeface for developers that makes it easier to read code.
