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Custom font for icons used by code-gov-web. Based on font-awesome and icon by Hadrien. Built using fontello.
In order to use the font on a website, you have to install it first. There's a good chance that you will have to update the paths below to match you folder structure.
@font-face {
font-family: 'code-gov';
src: url('../font/code-gov.eot?90902143');
src: url('../font/code-gov.eot?90902143#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('../font/code-gov.woff2?90902143') format('woff2'),
url('../font/code-gov.woff?90902143') format('woff'),
url('../font/code-gov.ttf?90902143') format('truetype'),
url('../font/code-gov.svg?90902143#code-gov') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
- Clone the repo
- Execute
npm install
- Upload the
config.jsonfile from code-gov-font project to the fontello website. - Use the fontello site to add/remove icons as needed
- Name the font
code-govand download the new package (download webfont) as a .zip - Extract the .zip and copy the new
config.jsonthen use it to replace theconfig.jsonin the code-gov-font directory - Run
npm run buildto rebuild the font - At this point, the font has been updated. You can save & commit these changes for testing
This project is a dependency of code-gov-style. After updating this font, a new version of this package must be released and the @code.gov/code-gov-font version must be updated in code-gov-style. Follow our Component Release instructions for details on how to do this.
*Note: After these steps have been completed, you must run npm install then run npm run update-font in code-gov-style to finish the font update. And finally, in code-gov-style, update the icon list in the _fontello.scss file to add any new icons and delete any that were removed.
You can find the icon unicode character ( { content: '\f253'; } ) info in the code-gov.svg file by searching for the name of the icon you just added. This info is also on the fontello site under the Customize Codes tab.
Fontello has some documentation on How to save and load projects that has additional info for reference.
If you have any questions, please post a GitHub issue! :-)
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