Create a new document by selecting New > fontforge_glyph.If there are problems, you can always refer back to this base file to make initial changes to the shapes. Make sure you've converted all shapes, type and lines to paths and check your drawing in outline mode to be sure.Open the Inkscape document that holds your designs.Here's the steps I take: Preparation (using Inkscape in this example) I've successfully created a few icon fonts for my websites and the Inkscape FontForge approach as outlined in this how-to is pretty solid, and if you're used to using software such as Inkscape, it's also pretty easy too. I'm about to get fontforge and start learning (if there's better free software for font creation, let me know).
hours and hours could have been saved.Īnyway, any help with this is greatly appreciated. with css as well? Man, if this really is true. And then I could change the size, color, etc. I would then need to specify the font type within the css class/id (i.e. For those more experienced with fontforge, is there a way to say a specific word = character?Īlso, in regards to implementing this on the website. If that's the case, it'll take a bit of memorization (especially since I have over 26 icons). png file for every different color and size). so much better than creating different icons, exporting each as it's own. Will this method ultimately mean creating a one file font set that has each icon assigned to a character? Because this method is so new to me I really want to sure I approach it correctly first (I see great potential.
Rather than as images or css background, it seems you can approach icons as a font. Through getting some answers here and some research, I've come across a new approach to implementing icons.
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