svgtofont

Free Font

Read a set of SVG icons and ouput a TTF/EOT/WOFF/WOFF2/SVG font, Generator of fonts from SVG icons.

Install · Usage · Command · Font Usage · API · options · npm · License

Features:

• Supported font formats: WOFF2, WOFF, EOT, TTF and SVG.
• Support SVG Symbol file.
• Support React, ReactNative, Vue & TypeScript.
• Support Less/Sass/Stylus.
• Allows to use custom templates (example css, less and etc).
• Automatically generate a preview site.

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graph LR;
    A[iconfont]-->C[Download SVG];
    B[icomoon]-->C;
    D[icongo]-->C;
    E[yesicon]-->C;
    click A "https://www.iconfont.cn" "阿里巴巴矢量图标库" _blank
    click B "https://icomoon.io" "Pixel Perfect Icon Solutions" _blank
    click D "https://icongo.github.io" "Include popular icons in your React projects easily icons." _blank
    click E "https://yesicon.app/" "216,162 High-Quality Vector Icons from Top Design Teams." _blank
    C .-> ide1
    subgraph ide1 [Project]
        svg -->a2[svgtofont create font]
        a2 .-> b3[use font]
    end

Icon Font Created By svgtofont

• file-icons File icons in the file tree.
• uiw-iconfont The premium icon font for @uiwjs Component Library. Support React & TypeScript.
• Bootstrap Icons Font Official open source SVG icon library for Bootstrap.
• test example For a simple test example, run npm run test in the root directory to see the results.

Install

npm i svgtofont

[!NOTE]
This package v5+ is ESM only: Node 18+ is needed to use it and it must be import instead of require.

import svgtofont from 'svgtofont';

Using With Command

{
  "scripts": {
    "font": "svgtofont --sources ./svg --output ./font --fontName uiw-font"
  },
  "svgtofont": {
    "css": {
      "fontSize": "12px"
    }
  }
}

You can add configuration to package.json. #48

Support for .svgtofontrc and more configuration files.

{
  "fontName": "svgtofont",
  "css": true
}

/**
 * @type {import('svgtofont').SvgToFontOptions}
 */
export default {
  fontName: "iconfont",
}

Using With Nodejs

[!NOTE]
This package v5+ is now pure ESM. Please read this.

import svgtofont from 'svgtofont';
import path from 'node:path';
 
svgtofont({
  src: path.resolve(process.cwd(), 'icon'), // svg path, only searches one level, not recursive
  dist: path.resolve(process.cwd(), 'fonts'), // output path
  fontName: 'svgtofont', // font name
  css: true, // Create CSS files.
}).then(() => {
  console.log('done!');
});

Or

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API

import { createSVG, createTTF, createEOT, createWOFF, createWOFF2, createSvgSymbol, copyTemplate, createHTML } from 'svgtofont/lib/utils';

const options = { ... };

async function createFont() {
  const unicodeObject = await createSVG(options); 
  const ttf = await createTTF(options); // SVG Font => TTF
  await createEOT(options, ttf); // TTF => EOT
  await createWOFF(options, ttf); // TTF => WOFF
  await createWOFF2(options, ttf); // TTF => WOFF2
  await createSvgSymbol(options); // SVG Files => SVG Symbol
}

options

svgtofont(options)

config

Type: config?: AutoConfOption

By default, settings are automatically loaded from .svgtofontrc and package.json. You can add configuration to package.json. #48

Support for .svgtofontrc and more configuration files.

log

Type: Boolean

A value of false disables logging

logger

Type: (msg) => void

log callback function

dist

Type: String
Default value: dist => fonts

The output directory.

outSVGReact

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

Output ./dist/react/, SVG generates react components.

git/git.svg

// ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓

import React from 'react';
export const Git = props => (
  
);

outSVGReactNative

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

Output ./dist/reactNative/, SVG generates reactNative components.

import { Text } from 'react-native';

const icons = { "Git": "__GitUnicodeChar__", "Adobe": "__AdobeUnicodeChar__" };

export const RangeIconFont = props => {
  const { name, ...rest } = props;
  return (
    {icons[name]}
  );
};

outSVGVue

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

Output ./dist/vue/, SVG generates vue components.

git/git.svg

// ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓

import { defineComponent, h } from 'vue';

export const Git = defineComponent({
  name: 'Git',
  props: {
    class: {
      type: String,
      default: ''
    }
  },
  setup(props, { attrs }) {
    return () => h(
      'svg',
      {
        viewBox: '0 0 20 20',
        width: undefined,
        height: undefined,
        class: `svgtofont ${props.class}`,
        ...attrs
      },
      []
    );
  }
});

outSVGPath

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

Output ./dist/svgtofont.json, The content is as follows:

{
  "adobe": ["M14.868 3H23v19L14.868 3zM1 3h8.138L1 22V3zm.182 11.997H13.79l-1.551-3.82H8.447z...."],
  "git": ["M2.6 10.59L8.38 4.8l1.69 1.7c-.24.85.15 1.78.93 2.23v5.54c-.6.34-1 .99-1..."],
  "stylelint": ["M129.74 243.648c28-100.109 27.188-100.5.816c2.65..."]
}

Or you can generate the file separately:

const { generateIconsSource } = require('svgtofont/src/generate');	
const path = require('path');	

async function generate () {	
  const outPath = await generateIconsSource({	
    src: path.resolve(process.cwd(), 'svg'),	
    dist: path.resolve(process.cwd(), 'dist'),	
    fontName: 'svgtofont',	
  });	
}	

generate();

generateInfoData

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

Output ./dist/info.json, The content is as follows:

{
  "adobe": {
    "encodedCode": "\\ea01",
    "prefix": "svgtofont",
    "className": "svgtofont-adobe",
    "unicode": ""
  },
  ...
}

src

Type: String
Default value: svg

output path

emptyDist

Type: String
Default value: false

Clear output directory contents

fontName

Type: String
Default value: iconfont

The font family name you want.

styleTemplates

Type: String Default value: undefined

The path of the templates, see src/styles or test/templates/styles to get reference about how to create a template, file names can have the extension .template, like a filename.scss.template

startUnicode

Type: Number
Default value: 0xea01

unicode start number

getIconUnicode

Get Icon Unicode

getIconUnicode?: (name: string, unicode: string, startUnicode: number) 
      => [string, number];

useNameAsUnicode

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

should the name(file name) be used as unicode? this switch allows for the support of ligatures.

let's say you have an svg with a file name of add and you want to use ligatures for it. you would set up your processing as mentioned above and turn on this switch.

{
  ...
  useNameAsUnicode: true
}

while processing, instead of using a single sequential char for the unicode, it uses the file name. using the file name as the unicode allows the following code to work as expected.

.icons {
  font-family: 'your-font-icon-name' !important;
  font-size: 16px;
  font-style: normal;
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}

add

as you add more svgs and process them into your font you would just use the same pattern.

add
remove
edit

addLigatures

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

adds possibility to use name (file name) in addition to codepoints. adds support of ligatures.

let's say you have some svgs and you want to use codepoints but for some of them for example with a file name of add you want to use ligatures for it. this option only adds ligatures and still allows for using codepoints as usual. this is in contrary to useNameAsUnicode which basically removes support for codepoints in favour of ligatures.

{
  ...
  addLigatures: true
}

useCSSVars

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

consoles whenever {{ cssString }} template outputs unicode characters or css vars

classNamePrefix

Type: String
Default value: font name

Create font class name prefix, default value font name.

css

Type: Boolean|CSSOptions
Default value: false

Create CSS/LESS files, default true.

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svgicons2svgfont

This is the setting for svgicons2svgfont

svgicons2svgfont.fontName

Type: String
Default value: 'iconfont'

The font family name you want.

svgicons2svgfont.fontId

Type: String
Default value: the options.fontName value

The font id you want.

svgicons2svgfont.fontStyle

Type: String
Default value: ''

The font style you want.

svgicons2svgfont.fontWeight

Type: String
Default value: ''

The font weight you want.

svgicons2svgfont.fixedWidth

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

Creates a monospace font of the width of the largest input icon.

svgicons2svgfont.centerHorizontally

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

Calculate the bounds of a glyph and center it horizontally.

svgicons2svgfont.normalize

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

Normalize icons by scaling them to the height of the highest icon.

svgicons2svgfont.fontHeight

Type: Number
Default value: MAX(icons.height)

The outputted font height (defaults to the height of the highest input icon).

svgicons2svgfont.round

Type: Number
Default value: 10e12

Setup SVG path rounding.

svgicons2svgfont.descent

Type: Number
Default value: 0

The font descent. It is useful to fix the font baseline yourself.

Warning: The descent is a positive value!

svgicons2svgfont.ascent

Type: Number
Default value: fontHeight - descent

The font ascent. Use this options only if you know what you're doing. A suitable value for this is computed for you.

svgicons2svgfont.metadata

Type: String
Default value: undefined

The font metadata. You can set any character data in but it is the be suited place for a copyright mention.

svgicons2svgfont.log

Type: Function
Default value: console.log

Allows you to provide your own logging function. Set to function(){} to disable logging.

svgoOptions

Type: OptimizeOptions Default value: undefined

Some options can be configured with svgoOptions though it. [svgo](https