Fontello - icon font scissors
website: fontello.com, help: wiki
This tool lets you combine icon webfonts for your own project. With fontello you can:
- shrink glyph collections, minimizing font size
- merge symbols from several fonts into a single file
- access large sets of professional-grade open source icons
Developers API
Fontello allows easy scripting, to implement different convenient features:
- Open site from command line, with your configuration, and import edited project
- Makefile example. That’s a live working code, used for development of fontello itself.
- Writing website plugins, to import/export icons via admin panel.
When more examples available, those will be added here.
API methods
POST https://fontello.com/
creates a session with your config and return yousession_id
. You can use it later to open fontello with your configuration and to automatically download your font. Session is stored for 24h. POST params (form-encoded):config
- (Required) content ofconfig.json
for your fonturl
- (Optional) if used, download button will link to your admin panel, where you can run importing script.
https://fontello.com/[session_id]
- opening fontello with your config preloaded. When you edit font, your config is automatically sent to serverhttps://fontello.com/[session_id]/get
- download your font.
Note. When you open site via API url, download
button will have another text.
Examples
- Makefile - quick load iconic font from your project via CLI & save result back.
- fontello-cli - the same, as above, but written in
node.js
. If you don’t likemake
utility, thenfontello-cli
is for you :) - fontello_rails_converter - Ruby CLI gem for interacting with the API. Additional features (Sass conversion) for Rails integration, but should work for every project.
- grunt-fontello - lightweight integration with grunt
Authors
- Roman Shmelev (shmelev).
- Vitaly Puzrin (puzrin).
- Aleksey Zapparov (ixti).
- Evgeny Shkuropat (shkuropat).
- Vladimir Zapparov (dervus).
- Alex Kocharin (rlidwka).
Thanks to:
- Werner Lemberg for help with ttfautohint.
- Hermanto Lim for the image.
License
Fontello’s code (all files, except fonts) is distributed under MIT license. See LICENSE file for details.
Embedded fonts are distributed under their primary licenses (SIL OFL / CC BY / CC BY-SA). See fonts info on fontello website for credits & links to homepages. This info is also included in generated font archives for your convenience (see LICENSE.txt file).
Generated fonts are intended for web usage, and should not be considered/distributed as independent artwork. Consider fontello a “font archiver” and credit original font creators according to their respective license.
Crediting fontello is not required :)