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Simple icon font

How to make an icon font

A simple monospace icon font with normalized glyphs.


While not required, this guide assume that you have made yourself familiar with the Asset preparation.

What to expect

This guide is about creating a simple icon font using MkFont from scratch. It only assumes that you have some assets to work with, and that you are using Adobe© Illustrator, because that’s what you’ll see in the screenshots – but any SVG editor will work.

Credits

This example is using Kenney’s Game Icons, which you will find packaged along with this guide’ files, downloadable here.

Final output

We’re going to make the following font :

guides/ifont/final-output.png

Process

WORK IN PROGRESS.

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