One-Click Icon Font Generation: icon-font-generator Usage Guide

Say goodbye to tedious icon management - convert SVG icons to lightweight web fonts with command line

Why Do We Need Icon Fonts?

In web development, icon management often faces challenges:

• Multi-resolution adaptation issues
• Multiple small images increase HTTP requests
• Color/size adjustments require re-exporting
• Complex multi-color icon management

Icon fonts perfectly solve these problems: vector scaling, CSS control, single-request loading of all icons. Today's featured tool icon-font-generator can generate a complete solution with just two commands!

Quick Start

1️⃣ Install the Tool Globally

npm install -g icon-font-generator

2️⃣ Generate Icon Font

icon-font-generator C:\icons\*.svg -o dist

This command will:

1. Read all SVG files from the C:\icons directory
2. Generate font files (TTF/WOFF/WOFF2/EOT/SVG)
3. Output to the dist directory and automatically create CSS/HTML preview

Core Parameters Explained

icon-font-generator [svg-path] -o [output-directory] [options]

Common Configuration Example:

icon-font-generator assets/icons/*.svg \
  -o public/fonts \
  --name "app-icons" \
  --prefix "ico-" \
  --types "woff2,woff" \
  --normalize \
  --height 1000

Key Parameters: