Circles doesn't follow design guidelines

[depascalis]

Describe the bug
This is more of a question, but might be a bug.

The Icon Design Guidelines states that circles should be 15px in diameter. When looking at FA icons, all the circles I have inspected are 15.5px in diameter (eg. circle regular, circle solid, info-circle). There is probably a good reason for this so I'm curious of why that is?

I suggest clarifying the documentation on how to align the vertices on open and closed paths on the 16px grid in the design phase, and also how strokes should be aligned on shapes (inner, center, outer).

Version and implementation
Version: 5.15

• SVG with JS
• Web Fonts with CSS
• SVG Sprites
• On the Desktop

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[tagliala]

Hi!

Thanks for being part of the Font Awesome Community and thanks for reporting this.

Good question, let's ask @sensibleworld

[sensibleworld]

Yup! Those docs need updating. I'm putting it on my to-do list. With version 6, our circles are all sized at 16px. With version 5, they were 15.5px... but something must have gotten lost in translation when we were first writing the docs.