glyphs2font

SVG Glyph Icons to Web Font Generation

About

Glyphs2Font is a small command-line utility for converting one or more SVG-based icons into the glyphs of a Web font. The generated Web font is provided in TTF, EOF, WOFF and SVG formats and a corresponding CSS file for direct embedding is generated, too.

Installation

$ npm install -g glyphs2font

Usage

$ ls -1
example-font.yml
icon-sign-failure.svg
icon-sign-minus.svg
icon-sign-plus.svg
icon-sign-success.svg

$ cat sample.yml
font:
    svg:        example-font.svg
    ttf:        example-font.ttf
    eot:        example-font.eot
    woff:       example-font.woff
    css:        example-font.css
    html:       example-font.html
    name:       example
    prefix:     example
    fixedwidth: false
    height:     1000
    descent:    150
    normalize:  true
    center:     true
    round:      10e12
glyphs:
    - glyph:    icon-sign-success.svg
      name:     success
      code:     0xE001
    - glyph:    icon-sign-failure.svg
      name:     failure
      code:     0xE002
    - glyph:    icon-sign-plus.svg
      name:     plus
      code:     0xE003
    - glyph:    icon-sign-minus.svg
      name:     minus
      code:     0xE004

$ glyphs2font sample.yml

$ ls -1
example-font.css
example-font.eot
example-font.html
example-font.svg
example-font.ttf
example-font.woff
example-font.yml
icon-sign-failure.svg
icon-sign-minus.svg
icon-sign-plus.svg
icon-sign-success.svg

Internals

The internal conversion process works as following:

1. the SVG icons are converted into an SVG font with the help of svgicons2svgfont.
2. the SVG font is converted into TrueType Font (TTF) format with the help of svg2ttf.
3. the TTF format is converted into Embedded OpenType (EOT) format with the help of ttf2eot.
4. the TTF format is converted into Web Open Font Format (WOFF) with the help of ttf2woff.
5. the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) is generated for embedding the font directly into HTML pages.
6. the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) sample page is generated for showcasing the generated font.

License

Copyright (c) 2015-2022 Dr. Ralf S. Engelschall (http://engelschall.com/)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.