Create icon fonts from several SVG icons
You can test this library with the frontend generator.
Warning: While this plugin may still be useful for fonts generation or old
browser support, you should consider using SVG icons directly. Indeed, when I
created gulp-iconfont and all its related modules, using SVG icons was just
not realistic for a wide browser support but I was already convinced that SVG
was the future, that's why I wanted my SVG source files to sit separated in a
folder. So, now, just enjoy switching to SVG with almost no effort :). Was a
great open source journey with you all!
More info on why using SVG over icon fonts.
First, install gulp-iconfont as a development dependency:
npm install --save-dev gulp-iconfontThen, add it to your gulpfile.js:
import iconfont from 'gulp-iconfont';
const runTimestamp = Math.round(Date.now() / 1000);
gulp.task('Iconfont', async function () {
return iconfont('assets/icons/*.svg', {
fontName: 'myfont', // required
prependUnicode: true, // recommended option
formats: ['ttf', 'eot', 'woff'], // default, 'woff2' and 'svg' are available
timestamp: runTimestamp, // recommended to get consistent builds when watching files
})
.on('glyphs', function (glyphs, options) {
// CSS templating, e.g.
console.log(glyphs, options);
})
// If you are using gulp v5, add { encoding: false } option in dest function
// `.pipe(gulp.dest('www/fonts/', { encoding: false }));`
.pipe(gulp.dest('www/fonts/'));
});gulp-iconfont bundles several plugins to bring a simpler API
(gulp-svgicons2svgfont, gulp-svg2tff, gulp-ttf2eot, gulp-ttf2woff) for
more flexibility, feel free to use them separately.
If some font glyphs aren't converted properly you should add the
normalize:true option and a fontHeight greater than 1000
(fontHeight: 1001).
You can also generate your CSS automatically with
gulp-iconfont-css.
Add issues to the right repos:
- the plugin doesn't work at all, submit your issue in this repo,
- every font doesn't display as expected: submit the issue to the svgicons2svgfont repository,
- only some fonts are damaged? Please look at the font format the targeted browser actually use and then, submit your issue to one of those projects: svg2ttf, ttf2eot, ttf2woff.
Path to the icons files.
Type: Array Default value: ['ttf', 'eot', 'woff'] Possible values:
['svg', 'ttf', 'eot', 'woff', 'woff2']
Since SVG fonts are deprecated in some (every ?) browsers, they are disabled per default.
Also the WOFF2 fonts are disabled since it seems to cause issues on some setup (see #64).
Type: Boolean|String Default value: false
If ttfautohint is installed on your system, you may want to auto hint your fonts. Beware that this is an experimental and untested feature (beware to use at least the 0.93 version).
If the value is a string, it is taken to be the path to the ttfautohint
binary. Otherwise, ttfautohint is searched in $PATH.
The svgicons2svgfont are available:
- options.fontName (required)
- options.fontWeight
- options.fontStyle
- options.fixedWidth
- options.centerHorizontally
- options.normalize
- options.fontHeight
- options.round
- options.descent
- options.metadata
- options.log
So are the gulp-svgicons2svgfont:
- options.startUnicode
- options.prependUnicode
And the gulp-svg2ttf:
- options.timestamp
Beware that your SVG icons must have a high enough height. 500 is a minimum.
If you do not want to resize them, you can try to combine the fontHeight and
the normalize option to get them in a correct size.
Ungroup every shapes (Ctrl+Shift+G), convert to pathes (Ctrl+Maj+C) and merge them (Ctrl++). Then save your SVG, prefer 'simple SVG' file type.
Save your file as SVG with the following settings:
- SVG Profiles: SVG 1.1
- Fonts Type: SVG
- Fonts Subsetting: None
- Options Image Location: Embed
- Advanced Options
- CSS Prope 8000 rties: Presentation Attributes
- Decimal Places: 1
- Encoding: UTF-8
- Output fewer elements: check
Leave the rest unchecked.
More in-depth information: http://www.adobe.com/inspire/2013/09/exporting-svg-illustrator.html
Feel free to push your code if you agree with publishing under the MIT license.
You may want to use the dockerized version of TTFAutoHint, to do so, run:
docker build -t ttfautohint .