#Photoshop to fontforge mac os#
#Photoshop to fontforge software#

I found the sizing and spacing was really hard to get right (I was making letters). You'll get a Fontname.zip file that contains a bunch of usage suggestions as well as the font files themselves. Now press the 'Preferences' button at the top of the screen (or the gear at the bottom right) and finalize the name and metadata of your new font and press the 'Download' at the lower right.

#Photoshop to fontforge mac os#

A program like GNOME Character Map (for Linux) or Windows Character Map or Mac OS Character Palette may help you find appropriate codes for your glyphs. On the right side, you can type or paste a character, or on the left side, you can enter its hexadecimal code. On the resulting screen, you can then map each glyph to a unicode character. When you're done, select all of the glyphs you want in the font and then press the 'Generate Font' button at the bottom of the page. Use the 'Edit' tool (the pencil icon) and click on each glyph to get the sizing and spacing just right. Then click 'Get Info' on the set's preferences so you can name the set and give it some metadata.

Click the purple Import Icons button on the top of the page to import each of your custom SVG glyphs. IcoMoon is a rather straightforward tool.

#Photoshop to fontforge software#

Then, either use the free software program FontForge directly (as directed in the first answer, creating icon fonts with vector software) or else use the free IcoMoon online service (as directed in the second answer, tools to convert svg to ttf). Paste into that template, standardize the look, size, and position, and save as PLAIN SVG, one file per character ('glyph'). Copy the existing SVG and create a new project from the FontForge Glyph template. (This step might be optional.) Open up your SVG in the free software program InkScape. Still, I got what I was looking for by combining those two answers. Unfortunately, neither is really a coding answer, which is what I had really hoped for (a command line utility for scripted conversion or perhaps an API with which somebody could write such a thing). Tools to convert svg to ttf (archived from this deleted SO question).Creating icon fonts with vector software (i.e.I found two relevant answers here on Stack Overflow: