Add section about icon fonts

[davelab6]

Reference http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12336401/creating-icon-fonts-with-vector-software-i-e-inkscape-and-fontforge

[NBspaceCadet360]

I made dingbats using FontForge! About a 2 day learning curve to do it having never worked with font creation before and new to FontForge.

I looked at the FontForge instructional video on YouTube plus a few other articles I found online.
On the YouTube video I changed the speed to 1/2 so I could see what they were clicking on from the toolbars.

Here is how I did it -

Only one thing is yippy in FF (I am using Windows 10) and that's where you name the revised font so the original name doesn't show up when you install it.
You do the official name in
ELEMENT > FONT INFO and a box shows up.

But the line on the box for FONT-FAMILY has an error.
It names your font what you put in that line. So if your font winds u named "sans-serif" all you need to do to fix it is make that line be your font name.

My dingbats -

[NBspaceCadet360]

at the beginning - the font you wipe clean to use as a template to import your images into probably has an unwanted size for each cell. So at the start of the project I selected one and hit CONTROL + A key to select all. Then I used Metrics tab in the toolbar to get the width change tool and make all the cells 400 wide or something sort of skinny.

The Control + A is a big time saver as most fonts have tons of cells because they are in a dozen languages. Those unwanted 'extra' cells get dropped out later in the process.
When they are all the same size you just go and highlight the main alphabet and number keys to be you icon size... like 700 or so.
Keep it under 1000.

[davelab6]

Great suggestion!

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On May 18, 2017 10:47 AM, "NBspaceCadet360" ***@***.***> wrote: at the beginning - the font you wipe clean to use as a template to import your images into probably has an unwanted size for each cell. So at the start of the project I selected one and hit CONTROL + A key to select all. Then I used Metrics tab in the toolbar to get the width change tool and make all the cells 400 wide or something sort of skinny. The Control + A is a big time saver as most fonts have tons of cells because they are in a dozen languages. Those unwanted 'extra' cells get dropped out later in the process. When they are all the same size you just go and highlight the main alphabet and number keys to be you icon size... like 700 or so. Keep it under 1000. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#21 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAP9yyTRsQapXeGz0mAuUv5UWe_5Z9K7ks5r7FntgaJpZM4BAuCE> .