I’m planning to make an icon font for a client of mine. The icons will have all the same height because they were placed in an outline circle. So far so good. I even understand placing them into PUA glyphs. So I started with uniE000, … Don’t know exactly how many we will use, but 50 icons is a good amount.
What I don’t understand is, how can I reach these glyphs when typing a character in any app. I’m a graphic designer so I know the possibility to show up the hole glyphs set of a font via InDesign for example. But what is a smart entering and typing solution for the icon font itself?
I saw that there is a Feature Tap in the Font Infos. There you can set up some scripting and I also catch, that the following code line out of the web: “sub c m by cable_management;” will display the icon for “Cable Management” when typing c + m keys. Is that right?
So is this the common solution to add such ligature scripting for each icon?
For example, should it be possible that the code line:
// sub m a i l by mail_icon; // will display the mail icon out of the font, which has the extra name mail_icon. Is that right?
and of course, are there any other settings that are important for an icon font?
you should use standard ligatures for that, open material symbols for example in your app, and then go to the features panel you will see the names of all glyphs there which we call it character mapping