fontello/fontello
Fontello
Fontello is a custom font package builder and icon font generator designed to combine selected icons from multiple libraries into a single minimized font file. It functions as a service for converting SVG vector graphics into font glyphs through automated path merging and transformations.
The project provides a programmatic interface for automating icon workflows, allowing the management of configurations and the triggering of font generation via network requests for build pipelines. This enables the integration of custom font production into external automation workflows and command line tools.
The system covers font metrics configuration, glyph sequence reordering, and multi-format font rasterization to ensure cross-platform rendering compatibility. It also supports subset-based font compilation to optimize web font payloads by including only necessary glyphs.
Features
- Package Builders - Provides a system for configuring font metrics and glyph ordering to export tailored icon sets in standard font formats.
- Icon Fonts - Combines selected icons from multiple libraries into a single minimized font file for efficient web rendering.
- SVG - Normalizes SVG path data and applies coordinate transforms to convert vector graphics into compatible font glyphs.
- Automated Font Generators - Provides a programmatic API to automate the generation and download of custom font packages via network requests.
- Icon Package Generation - Implements automated pipelines for bundling SVG data into font-based icon packages via network requests.
- Workflow Automation - Offers a programmatic interface for triggering font generation and managing icon configurations via network requests for build pipelines.
- Font Subsetting Engines - Extracts and merges specific glyphs from multiple libraries into a single minimized font file to optimize web payloads.
- Vector-to-Font Compilers - Converts custom SVG vector graphics into usable web font packages through automated path merging and transformations.
- Font Asset Bundles - Produces downloadable bundles containing both the font files and corresponding CSS mappings from a JSON configuration.
- Workflow Automation Triggers - Allows external build pipelines to programmatically trigger the creation of customized icon font packages.
- Glyph Mappings - Associates specific Unicode codepoints with selected icons to control their order and mapping in the final font.
- Glyph Aggregators - Consolidates selected symbols from disparate open-source icon libraries into a single unified font package.
- Multi-Format Font Exporting - Generates font binaries in multiple standard formats to ensure consistent rendering across different platforms and browsers.
- Glyph Ordering - Provides a utility to arrange the sequence of selected icons to determine their final mapping within the font package.
- SVG Imports - Supports incorporating user-provided SVG files into the font generation process by automatically applying transforms and merging paths.
- Icon Integration Tools - Provides tools to import and export icon configurations, enabling integration with external command line utilities and build scripts.
- Web Font Optimization - Optimizes web font payload size by including only the necessary glyphs from larger icon sets.
- Icon Tools - Tool to build custom icon fonts.
- Web Typography Utilities - Tool for combining icon webfonts.
- Vector Graphics - Tool to pack vector images into webfonts.
