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Somewhat relatedly: http://fontello.com http://fontello.com. Helps you generate your own icon fonts using a smaller selection of icons instead of using the enti

by sinak 12y ago

Somewhat relatedly: http://fontello.com http://fontello.com. Helps you generate your own icon fonts using a smaller selection of icons instead of using the entire Font Awesome library, which can be up to 253kB depending on your browser. There's a great gem for using it with rails [1], a cli [2] and grunt task [2]. [1] https://github.com/railslove/fontello_rails_converter https://github.com/railslove/fontello_rails_converter [2] https://github.com/paulyoung/fontello-cli https://github.com/paulyoung/fontello-cli [3] https://github.com/jubalm/grunt-fontello https://github.com/jubalm/grunt-fontello

geuis 12y ago
We've started using fontello recently. We use some custom svg assets in addition to the icon font sets. I wrote a ~100 line python script that manages interactions with fontello. It'll open a browser with our config file, let you make changes, then download and store the updated fontello assets mostly from the command line. I highly recommend doing something like this if you get on board the fontello train.
- rblatz 12y ago
  What does that buy you that using something like gulp-iconfont https://github.com/nfroidure/gulp-iconfont https://github.com/nfroidure/gulp-iconfont doesn't?
  - lowboy 12y ago
    That project doesn't seem to integrate with Fontello at all.
    - rblatz 12y ago
      Right, the point would be to not require a bunch of scripts to tie into an online service to generate a font. Instead you just do it all locally at build time.
cobalt 12y ago
I personally prefer IcoMoon which generally has a lot more options and their font builder (for custom glyphs) works much better.
sp332 12y ago
You can also make subsets with any font on Google Fonts, using the text= parameter e.g. https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Creepster&text=JAVSCRIPT https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Creepster&text=JAVSC...
etler 12y ago
Is there a similar library that can use local assets? I'd prefer to remove an external website dependency from my build process if possible.
- zxcvgm 12y ago
  I had that same question some time ago. I found that Google uses Python bindings[1] for fontforge, but it had that dependency on fontforge. So I opted for a Python-based solution called fonttools[2] instead, and it works pretty well. It comes with a utility called pyftsubset which you can use like so: pyftsubset FontAwesome.otf U+f0{2c,9e,99} This creates a file called FontAwesome.otf.subset that has the selected glyphs. The FontAwesome site has the Unicode value on each icon page. [1] https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/tools/subset/ https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/... [2] https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/ https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/

by sinak 12y ago

geuis 12y ago

We've started using fontello recently. We use some custom svg assets in addition to the icon font sets. I wrote a ~100 line python script that manages interactions with fontello. It'll open a browser with our config file, let you make changes, then download and store the updated fontello assets mostly from the command line. I highly recommend doing something like this if you get on board the fontello train.

rblatz 12y ago
What does that buy you that using something like gulp-iconfont https://github.com/nfroidure/gulp-iconfont https://github.com/nfroidure/gulp-iconfont doesn't?
- lowboy 12y ago
  That project doesn't seem to integrate with Fontello at all.
  - rblatz 12y ago
    Right, the point would be to not require a bunch of scripts to tie into an online service to generate a font. Instead you just do it all locally at build time.

cobalt 12y ago

I personally prefer IcoMoon which generally has a lot more options and their font builder (for custom glyphs) works much better.

sp332 12y ago

You can also make subsets with any font on Google Fonts, using the text= parameter e.g. https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Creepster&text=JAVSCRIPT https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Creepster&text=JAVSC...

etler 12y ago

Is there a similar library that can use local assets? I'd prefer to remove an external website dependency from my build process if possible.

zxcvgm 12y ago
I had that same question some time ago. I found that Google uses Python bindings[1] for fontforge, but it had that dependency on fontforge. So I opted for a Python-based solution called fonttools[2] instead, and it works pretty well. It comes with a utility called pyftsubset which you can use like so: pyftsubset FontAwesome.otf U+f0{2c,9e,99} This creates a file called FontAwesome.otf.subset that has the selected glyphs. The FontAwesome site has the Unicode value on each icon page. [1] https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/tools/subset/ https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/... [2] https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/ https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/