webfonts-loader

webfonts-loader

A loader that generates fonts from your SVG icons and allows you to use your icons in your HTML.

webfonts-loader uses the webfonts-generator plugin to create fonts in any format. It also generates CSS files so that you can use your icons directly in your HTML, using CSS classes.

Installation

npm install webfonts-loader

Usage

An example of usage can be found in the test/ directory of this repository.

Webpack rule

Add this rule to your Webpack config:

{
  test: /\.font\.js/,
  loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract({
    use: [
      'style-loader',
      'css-loader',
      'webfonts-loader'
    ]
  })
}

So that each font configuration file will be loaded using this rule.

The font configuration file

The config file allows you to specify parameters for the loader to use. Here is an example configuration file:

// myfont.font.js
module.exports = {
  'files': [
    './myfont/*.svg'
  ],
  'fontName': 'myfonticons',
  'classPrefix': 'myfonticon-',
  'baseSelector': '.myfonticon',
  'types': ['eot', 'woff', 'woff2', 'ttf', 'svg'],
  'fileName': 'app.[fontname].[hash].[ext]'
};

Then you have to require the configuration file:

// entry.js
require('./myfont.font');

The loader will then generate:

• CSS with the base and class prefix.
• Font files for the SVG icons.

And there you are - your webfont is done. Now, here is one thing: You can use JavaScript too. A useful thing is, that there are two additional options that I did not mention:

All font configuration options

• baseSelector, String The base CSS selector, under which each icon class is to be created. See webfonts-generator#templateoptions

• classPrefix, String The prefix to be used with each icon class. See webfonts-generator#templateoptions

• cssTemplate, String See webfonts-generator#csstemplate

• embed, Boolean If true the font is encoded in base64 and embedded inside the @font-face declaration, otherwise font files are written to disk. Default: false

• hashLength, Number Optional. The length of hash in fileName. Min: 8 Max: 32 Default: 20

• fileName, String The generated font file names. These elements can be used:

  • [fontname]: the value of the fontName parameter
  • [ext]: the extension of the font file being generated (eot, ...)
  • [hash]: the hash of the current compilation
  • [chunkhash]: the hash of the SVG files

• files, Array See webfonts-generator#files

• fontName, String See webfonts-generator#fontname

• formatOptions, Object See webfonts-generator#formatoptions

• rename, Function See webfonts-generator#rename

• types, Array See webfonts-generator#types