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When you do this, you will get a view of the glyph outline that you can edit.

Element > Glyph Info or double click the glyph.

To do this, you will need to open the glyph info for the letter.

We’re going to edit the C (that’s a capital) first.

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The character code is in the blue outlined box, while the outlines are displayed below. Think of a character code as what you would type on your keyboard, and the path outlines as what your display would show you, using a font to map one to the other. Each glyph maps a character code to a path representing its visual outline. When you have opened up bunny-sans.svg, you should see something like the above image.įontForge’s main view of a font is as a table of glyphs. We’re starting with an existing font so you don’t have to set everything up from scratch, but you can also create a font entirely from scratch with FontForge. You can click the Home button in the upper left to take you to your home folder.īunny Sans is a trimmed down set of glyphs from Open Sans. The file picker is a bit different than your standard OS dialog, and will probably start you out at the root of your OS disk. After it’s open, you will need to open the bunny-sans.svg font via File > Open. All the materials for this lab, including these instructions, are in the 01-ascii folder.

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You can clone the repository, or just download the zip (click the Download Zip button in the lower right). Next, you’ll need to grab the resources for this lab. It can be a little daunting, but they try to make it as simple as possible. Visit their site and follow the installation instructions.

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Later articles will explain how to do some fancier character to icon mappings.įirst up, you’ll need to install FontForge. We’ll be replacing the capital letters ‘C’ and ‘H’ to represent a bunny with a carrot, and a happy bunny, respectively. What we’re going to be doing today is replacing some characters in a font with bunny icons. Finally, if you are routinely packaging a large number of icons into a font, it will probably be easier to use a tool, either a GUI based tool like Icomoon or Fontello or a build script like Font Custom. You may still find icon fonts fit your situation best, but it’s worth considering other options too. However, SVG has now gained pretty solid browser support as well. They are usable even in truly archaic versions of IE.

Icon fonts’ main advantage is compatibility. In general, the trend I see today is using SVG icons where possible with PNG fallback. CSS-Tricks has a comparison of fonts and SVG icons. The other current major players are vector and raster image icons. Icon fonts are just one way of using icons. I figured I would document how to make one using FontForge, in case you ever have to make or adjust one by hand.Ī couple notes before we get started. I had to create an icon font the other day to demonstrate the different ways of using icons (including icon fonts). Exercise 1, ASCII Icon Font Exercise 1 Creating An ASCII Icon Font

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