svgicons2svgfont

What is svgicons2svgfont?

The svgicons2svgfont npm package is a tool that converts a set of SVG icons into a single SVG font. This is useful for creating icon fonts that can be used in web development, allowing for scalable and customizable icons.

What are svgicons2svgfont's main functionalities?

Convert SVG icons to SVG font

This feature allows you to convert a directory of SVG icons into a single SVG font file. The code sample demonstrates how to read SVG files from a directory, create a font stream, and write the resulting SVG font to a file.

const fs = require('fs');
const SVGIcons2SVGFontStream = require('svgicons2svgfont');

const fontStream = new SVGIcons2SVGFontStream({
  fontName: 'myfont'
});

fontStream.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('myfont.svg'))
  .on('finish', () => {
    console.log('Font successfully created!');
  })
  .on('error', (err) => {
    console.error(err);
  });

fs.readdirSync('icons').forEach(file => {
  const glyph = fs.createReadStream(`icons/${file}`);
  glyph.metadata = { unicode: [String.fromCharCode(0xe001 + i)], name: file.replace('.svg', '') };
  fontStream.write(glyph);
});

fontStream.end();

Other packages similar to svgicons2svgfont

svg2ttf

The svg2ttf package converts SVG fonts to TTF (TrueType Font) format. While svgicons2svgfont focuses on creating SVG fonts from individual SVG icons, svg2ttf is used for converting those SVG fonts into TTF format, which is widely supported across different platforms.

fontello

Fontello is a tool that allows you to build custom icon fonts from a variety of icon sets. It provides a web interface for selecting icons and generating font files in various formats, including SVG, TTF, and WOFF. Unlike svgicons2svgfont, which is a command-line tool, Fontello offers a more user-friendly, graphical approach.

icomoon

IcoMoon is another popular tool for creating custom icon fonts. It offers both a web app and a command-line tool for generating icon fonts from SVG icons. IcoMoon provides additional features such as icon set management and the ability to generate multiple font formats, making it a more comprehensive solution compared to svgicons2svgfont.

README

svgicons2svgfont

svgicons2svgfont is a simple tool to merge multiple icons to an SVG font.

'rect', 'line', 'circle', 'ellipsis', 'polyline' and 'polygon' shapes will be converted to pathes. Multiple pathes will be merged.

Transform attributes support is currenly experimental, report issues if any.

You can test this library with the frontend generator.

You may want to convert fonts to icons, if so use svgfont2svgicons.

## Usage

### In your scripts

var svgicons2svgfont = require('svgicons2svgfont');
var fs = require('fs');
var fontStream = svgicons2svgfont({
  fontName: 'hello'
});

// Setting the font destination
fontStream.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('fonts/hello.svg'))
  .on('finish',function() {
    console.log('Font successfully created!')
  })
  .on('error',function(err) {
    console.log(err);
  });

// Writing glyphs
var glyph1 = fs.createReadStream('icons/icon1.svg');
glyph1.metadata = {
  unicode: ['\uE001\uE002'],
  name: 'icon1'
};
fontStream.write(glyph);
// Multiple unicode values are possible
var glyph2 = fs.createReadStream('icons/icon1.svg');
glyph2.metadata = {
  unicode: ['\uE002', '\uEA02'],
  name: 'icon2'
};
fontStream.write(glyph2);
// Either ligatures are available
var glyph3 = fs.createReadStream('icons/icon1.svg');
glyph3.metadata = {
  unicode: ['\uE001\uE002'],
  name: 'icon1-icon2'
};
fontStream.write(glyph3);

// Do not forget to end the stream
fontStream.end();

CLI interface

All options are available except the log one by using this pattern: --{LOWER_CASE(optionName)}={optionValue}.

svgicons2svgfont --fontname=hello -o font/destination/file.svg icons/directory/*.svg

Note that you won't be able to customize icon names or icons unicodes by passing options but by using the following convention to name your icons files: ${icon.unicode}-${icon.name}.svg where icon.unicode is a comma separated list of unicode strings (ex: 'uEA01,uE001,uE001uE002', note that the last string is in fact a ligature).

There is a few more options for the CLI interface, you can list all of them:

svgicons2svgfont --help
#  Usage: svgicons2svgfont [options] <icons ...>
#
#  Options:
#
#    -h, --help                  output usage information
#    -V, --version               output the version number
#    -v, --verbose               tell me everything!
#    -o, --output [/dev/stdout]  Output file.
#    -f, --fontname [value]      the font family name you want [iconfont].
#    -w, --fixedWidth            creates a monospace font of the width of the largest input icon.
#    -c, --centerhorizontally    calculate the bounds of a glyph and center it horizontally.
#    -n, --normalize             normalize icons by scaling them to the height of the highest icon.
#    -h, --height [value]        the outputted font height [MAX(icons.height)].
#    -r, --round [value]         setup the SVG path rounding [10e12].
#    -d, --descent [value]       the font descent [0].
#    -s, --startunicode [value]  the start unicode codepoint for unprefixed files [0xEA01].
#    -a, --appendunicode         prefix files with their automatically allocated unicode codepoint.
#    -m, --metadata              content of the metadata tag.

API

svgicons2svgfont(options)

options.fontName

Type: String Default value: 'iconfont'

The font family name you want.

options.fixedWidth

Type: Boolean Default value: false

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

options.centerHorizontally

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Calculate the bounds of a glyph and center it horizontally.

Warning: The bounds calculation is currently a naive implementation that may not work for some icons. We need to create a svg-pathdata-draw module on top of svg-pathdata to get the real bounds of the icon. It's on the bottom of my to do, but feel free to work on it. Discuss it in the related issue.

options.normalize

Type: Boolean Default value: false

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

options.fontHeight

Type: Number Default value: MAX(icons.height) The outputted font height (defaults to the height of the highest input icon).

options.round

Type: Number Default value: 10e12 Setup SVG path rounding.

options.descent

Type: Number Default value: 0

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

Warning: The descent is a positive value!

The ascent formula is: ascent = fontHeight - descent.

options.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.

options.log

Type: Function Default value: console.log

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

options.error

Type: Function Default value: console.error

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

Build systems

Grunt plugins

grunt-svgicons2svgfont and grunt-webfont.

Gulp plugins

Try gulp-iconfont and gulp-svgicons2svgfont.

### Stylus plugin

Use stylus-iconfont.

### Mimosa plugin

Use mimosa-svgs-to-iconfonts.

## CLI alternatives

You can combine this plugin's CLI interface with svg2ttf, ttf2eot, ttf2woff and ttf2woff2. You can also use webfonts-generator.

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Contributing

Feel free to push your code if you agree with publishing under the MIT license.