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Creating Icon Fonts for the Web

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Overview

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Learn how to create your custom icon font quickly and easily from existing icons or your own hand-drawn artwork, using tools like Illustrator, Fontello, Glyphs Mini, and more.

Syllabus

Welcome
  • Introduction
  • How to use the exercise files
1. Icon Font Overview
  • What is an icon font?
  • Options for creating icon fonts
  • Understanding font metrics
  • Tools overview
2. Using Online Tools
  • Online font-creation tools
  • Choosing existing icons
  • Uploading custom icons
  • Ensuring consistent sizing
  • Choosing Unicode encoding
  • Setting font preferences
  • Downloading and testing custom icon fonts
3. Drawing Glyphs
  • Exploring the finished font
  • Determining units per em (UPM)
  • Setting up your workspace
  • Setting grids and guides
  • Drawing on a grid
  • Tips for drawing curves
  • Drawing consistent curves
  • Creating compound paths
  • Simplifying paths
  • Exporting glyphs
4. Creating Your Own Icon Font
  • Glyphs Mini overview
  • Creating a new font
  • Setting font info
  • Organizing glyphs
  • Adding new glyphs
  • Setting glyph properties
  • Importing SVG artwork
  • Importing Illustrator artwork
  • Controlling path orientation
  • Adding extrema points
  • Simplifying paths
  • Dealing with problem artwork
  • Renaming glyphs
  • Exporting fonts
5. Generating Web Fonts
  • Using Font Squirrel to generate fonts
  • Exploring generated files
  • Testing icon fonts
Conclusion
  • Additional resources

Taught by

James Williamson

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