Build webfont from SVG icons

Adapted for Magento 2

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General information

The package has been extended from grunt-webfont and adapted to Magento 2 with the LESS preprocessor:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-webfont

Important

1. This plugin requires Grunt 0.4. Note that ttfautohint is optional, but your generated font will not be properly hinted if it’s not installed. And make sure you don’t use ttfautohint 0.97 because that version won’t work.
2. This plugin requires Node version <=12
   If version will be bigger than you will have the error:
   

ttf2woff2.js:3 Invalid asm.js: Invalid member of stdlib

3. fontforge isn’t required for the node engine.

To downgrade your Node version

Use NVM

https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/blob/master/README.md

For OS X you can use brew

brew unlink node
brew install node@12
brew link --overwrite --dry-run node@12
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/node@12/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

Installation

First for all OS

npm install grunt-m2webfont --save-dev
// or
yarn add grunt-m2webfont

OS X

brew install ttfautohint fontforge --with-python

Linux

sudo apt-get install fontforge ttfautohint

Windows

Install ttfautohint (optional).

Then install fontforge.

• Download and install fontforge.
• Add C:\Program Files (x86)\FontForgeBuilds\bin to your PATH environment variable.

Prepare svg icons in a theme's folder

Add all svg icons to the folder web/images/icons/font of a created theme.
Example:

app/design/frontend/{vendor}/{theme}/web/images/icons/font/*.svg

The module grunt-m2webfont will run for all themes which added to

dev/tools/grunt/configs/themes.js

or

dev/tools/grunt/configs/local-themes.js

if the file local-themes.js was added to a content of the file grunt-config.json in the root folder of a project.

Run the grunt-m2webfont module

Just run the command in a terminal:

grunt m2webfont

How to use

After importing and building styles you can use styles' mixins or html classes to add an icon.

Replace the fragment {name} to the name of an icon.
Example: @od-icon-arrow-down

LESS

The mixin .od-icon(@od-icon-{name}) will add properties such as: content and font-family

.class::before {
  .od-icon(@od-icon-{name});
}

HTML

<i class="od-icon od-icon-{name}"></i>

Issues

Generated font has broken icons

The default engine to build a font is node in the Grunt’s config file to save minimum dependecies. But generated icons might be broken. To fix this issue you need to change the engine from node to fontforge in the config.

Just to comment the row in the file dev/tools/grunt/configs/m2webfont.js:

const options = {
  ...
  // engine: 'node',
}

If you don’t set the engine to options then it will has a default value engine: 'fontforge'.

But to use FontForge you need install the engine to your OS.
See instructions above (Installation).
Just rebuild icons after installation.

ttf2woff2.js:3 Invalid asm.js: Invalid member of stdlib

Downgrade your Node version to 12.
See instructions above (Important).

Links

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-webfont
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-m2webfont