Symbol Font

An icon font made for Ink

Tasks

Check the TODO.md file

Development tools

• Adobe Illustrator CS5
• Glyphs

Build tools

• Node.js and Grunt
• ttf2eot
• sfnt2woff
• Sass
• ttfautohint
• Apple Font Tools Suite

Setting up the build environment (OS X)

• Install Node.js
• Install Grunt. From a terminal run: npm install -g grunt-cli
• Install ttf2eot. From a terminal run: brew install ttf2eot
• Install ttfautohint. From a terminal run: brew install ttfautohint
• Get sfnt2woff.
  • Unzip the binary and put it somewhere available to your $PATH system variable, e.g. cp sfnt2woff /user/local/bin/.
  • Make sure it is executable chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sfnt2woff
• Get Apple Font Tools Suite
  • Unzip and copy/move ftxanalyzer to somewhere available to your $PATH system variable, e.g. cp ftxanalyzer /user/local/bin/.
  • Make sure it is executable chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sfnt2woff
• Install SASS gem install sass or sudo gem install sass of you get errors.
• Run npm install from the Ink-Icons project root to finish the setup.

Building the web fonts and css

There are 3 available Grunt tasks:

1. The default task: grunt

• It will clean up the dist/fonts and dist/css folders, recompile and minify the css and build the font files from the src/ttf file.

2. The css task: grunt css

• It will clean up the dist/css folder, recompile and minify the css.

3. The webfonts task: grunt webfonts

• It will clean up the dist/fonts folder and build the font files from the src/ttf file.