Lansing Codes Web Font

This is a custom web font (like Mfizz or FontAwesome) for Lansing tech groups with custom logos.

The font exists so groups listed on Lansing Codes can be represented using their own logo while still allowing the icons to be styled with CSS.

Installation

This web font can be loaded using JSDelivr's CDN (the preferred method) or as an NPM dependency.

JSDelivr CDN

You can use a link element to load the web font directly from JSDelivr's CDN:

<link
  rel="preload"
  as="style"
  href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@lansingcodes/webfont@latest/font-lansing-codes.css"
>
<link
  rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@lansingcodes/webfont@latest/font-lansing-codes.css"
>

NPM

Install the web font in your project using NPM:

npm install --save @lansingcodes/webfont

If you are using Webpack or another code bundler, you can access the CSS file like this:

require('@lansingcodes/webfont/font-lansing-codes.css')

Without a code bundler, you can access the files from node_modules. Here's what's included in the package:

node_modules/
└── @lansingcodes
    └── webfont
        ├── font-lansing-codes.css
        ├── font-lansing-codes.svg
        └── generated
            ├── font-lansing-codes.eot
            ├── font-lansing-codes.svg
            ├── font-lansing-codes.ttf
            └── font-lansing-codes.woff

Usage

You can use the style classes included in the web font CSS to use the web font in your project and even override styles such as the size and color, like this:

<span
  class="icon-code-for-lansing"
  style="
    font-size: 4rem;
    color: #3e79bb
  "
></span>

Making changes

Consider the font-lansing-codes.svg file as the one source of truth for this web font.

You can add or change glypsh within the SVG using Inkscape by following the directions on How to Make Your Own Icon Webfont.

If the linked how-to goes away, here are the important points from the article:

1. Start with the Inkscape Icon Font Template SVG
2. Scale the graphic to fit in the drawing
3. Align the graphic to the baseline (slightly below the drawing)
4. Convert the graphic entirely to paths
5. Create a new glyph in Text > SVG Font Editor panel
6. Assign the new glyph a unique matching string (e.g. 'a', 'b', 'c', etc.)
7. Use Get curves from selection to use the selected paths for the new glyph
8. Save the file as a plain SVG (not an Inkscape SVG)
9. Add style classes to the CSS file and use the unique matching string from Step 6 as the value of the content attribute for new glyphs

Once the SVG is up to date, go to fontconverter.org and use the SVG to generate EOT, TTF, and WOFF versions of the font.

Save the generated files to the generated/ directory, making sure to replace the files that already exist there.

Code of Conduct

All participants are expected to treat others with respect and follow our Code of Conduct.

License

Hippocratic 2.1

Copyright (c) 2019-Present, Humanity Codes LLC