Bug: lightbulb glyph size changed mid-cycle for v5 (removed horizontal padding)

[flodolo]

Bug description

We upgraded Font Awesome in our app on the LTS branch v5 (from 5.0.13 to 5.15.4), and noticed a misalignment with the lightbulb icon. The change is present at least in fa-solid-900.woff2 and fa-solid-900.ttf.

Looks like the change happened between 5.2.0 and 5.3.0, although it's not listed in the changelog.

Was this change done on purpose or by mistake?

Reproducible test case

Screenshots

Screenshot of the lightbulb glyph in fontforge (fa-solid-900.woff2), v5.3.0 above, v5.2.0 below

Font Awesome version

v5.15.4

Serving

Self-hosted

Implementation

CSS

Browser and Operating System

Not dependent on browser.

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• I have included a test case because my odds go way up that the team can fix this when I do
• I have searched for existing issues and to the best of my knowledge this is not a duplicate

[tagliala]

Hi!

Thanks for being part of the Font Awesome Community.

I can confirm this changed between 5.2.0 and 5.3.0 without an entry in the changelog, sorry for that

The reason should be that at that time new lightbulb-* icons were introduced, like lightbulb-dollar and so the default lightbulb was fixed by removing the extra horizontal padding

Is this causing some issues?

[flodolo]

Is this causing some issues?

No, we worked around it by updating the placement via CSS. Mostly wanted to confirm this might not change back to the original spacing/size.