svg to font

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

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Features:

• Supported font formats: WOFF2, WOFF, EOT, TTF and SVG.
• Support SVG Symbol file.
• Allows to use custom templates (example css, less and etc).
• Automatically generate a preview site.

Icon Font Created By svgtofont

• file-icons File icons in the file tree.
• uiw-iconfont The premium icon font for @uiwjs Component Library.
• test example For a simple test example, run npm run test in the root directory to see the results.

Install

npm i svgtofont

Usage

const svgtofont = require('svgtofont');
const path = require('path');
 
svgtofont({
  src: path.resolve(process.cwd(), 'icon'), // svg path
  dist: path.resolve(process.cwd(), 'fonts'), // output path
  fontName: 'svgtofont', // font name
  css: true, // Create CSS files.
}).then(() => {
  console.log('done!');
});

Or

const svgtofont = require("svgtofont");
const path = require("path");

svgtofont({
  src: path.resolve(process.cwd(), "icon"), // svg path
  dist: path.resolve(process.cwd(), "fonts"), // output path
  fontName: "svgtofont", // font name
  css: true, // Create CSS files.
  startNumber: 20000, // unicode start number
  svgicons2svgfont: {
    fontHeight: 1000,
    normalize: true
  },
  // website = null, no demo html files
  website: {
    title: "svgtofont",
    // Must be a .svg format image.
    logo: path.resolve(process.cwd(), "svg", "git.svg"),
    version: pkg.version,
    meta: {
      description: "Converts SVG fonts to TTF/EOT/WOFF/WOFF2/SVG format.",
      keywords: "svgtofont,TTF,EOT,WOFF,WOFF2,SVG"
    },
    description: ``,
    links: [
      {
        title: "GitHub",
        url: "https://github.com/jaywcjlove/svgtofont"
      },
      {
        title: "Feedback",
        url: "https://github.com/jaywcjlove/svgtofont/issues"
      },
      {
        title: "Font Class",
        url: "index.html"
      },
      {
        title: "Unicode",
        url: "unicode.html"
      }
    ],
    footerInfo: `Licensed under MIT. (Yes it's free and <a href="https://github.com/jaywcjlove/svgtofont">open-sourced</a>`
  }
}).then(() => {
  console.log('done!');
});;

API

const {
  createSVG, 
  createTTF, 
  createEOT, 
  createWOFF, 
  createWOFF2, 
  createSvgSymbol
} = require("svgtofont/src/utils");

const options = { ... };

createSVG(options) // SVG => SVG Font
  .then(UnicodeObjChar => createTTF(options)) // SVG Font => TTF
  .then(() => createEOT(options)) // TTF => EOT
  .then(() => createWOFF(options)) // TTF => WOFF
  .then(() => createWOFF2(options)) // TTF => WOFF2
  .then(() => createSvgSymbol(options)) // SVG Files => SVG Symbol

options

svgtofont(options)

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 => (
  <svg viewBox="0 0 20 20" {...props}><path d="M2.6 10.59L8.38 4.8l1.69 -." fillRule="evenodd" /></svg>
);

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();

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.

unicodeStart

Type: Number
Default value: 10000

unicode start number

clssaNamePrefix

Type: String
Default value: font name

Create font class name prefix, default value font name.

css

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

Create CSS/LESS files, default true.

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.

svg2ttf

This is the setting for svg2ttf

svg2ttf.copyright

Type: String

copyright string

svg2ttf.ts

Type: String

Unix timestamp (in seconds) to override creation time

svg2ttf.version

Type: Number

font version string, can be Version x.y or x.y.

website

Define preview web content. Example:

{
  ...
  // website = null, no demo html files
  website: {
    title: "svgtofont",
    logo: path.resolve(process.cwd(), "svg", "git.svg"),
    version: pkg.version,
    meta: {
      description: "Converts SVG fonts to TTF/EOT/WOFF/WOFF2/SVG format.",
      keywords: "svgtofont,TTF,EOT,WOFF,WOFF2,SVG",
      favicon: "./favicon.png"
    },
    footerLinks: [
      {
        title: "GitHub",
        url: "https://github.com/jaywcjlove/svgtofont"
      },
      {
        title: "Feedback",
        url: "https://github.com/jaywcjlove/svgtofont/issues"
      },
      {
        title: "Font Class",
        url: "index.html"
      },
      {
        title: "Unicode",
        url: "unicode.html"
      }
    ]
  }
}

website.template

Type: String
Default value: index.ejs

Custom template can customize parameters. You can define your own template based on the default template.

{
  website: {
    template: path.join(process.cwd(), "my-template.ejs")
  }
}

website.index

Type: String
Default value: font-class, Enum{font-class, unicode, symbol}

Set default home page.

Font Usage

Suppose the font name is defined as svgtofont, The default home page is unicode, Will generate:

font-class.html
index.html
svgtofont.css
svgtofont.eot
svgtofont.json
svgtofont.less
svgtofont.svg
svgtofont.symbol.svg
svgtofont.ttf
svgtofont.woff
svgtofont.woff2
symbol.html

Preview demo font-class.html, symbol.html and index.html. Automatically generated style svgtofont.css and svgtofont.less.

symbol svg

<svg class="icon" aria-hidden="true">
  <use xlink:href="svgtofont.symbol.svg#svgtofont-git"></use>
</svg>

Unicode

<style>
.iconfont {
  font-family: "svgtofont-iconfont" !important;
  font-size: 16px;
  font-style: normal;
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.2px;
  -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}
</style>
<span class="iconfont">&#59907;</span>

Class Name

Support for .less and .css styles references.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="node_modules/fonts/svgtofont.css">
<i class="svgtofont-apple"></i>

License

Licensed under the MIT License.