From the course: Creating Icon Fonts for the Web

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Exporting fonts

Exporting fonts

From the course: Creating Icon Fonts for the Web

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Exporting fonts

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Once your font is finished and ready to go, the only thing left to do is export it out as an actual font. And as you would imagine, this is super simple to do inside Glyphs Mini. To show you this, I'm working with the chunky mobile file in the 04_14 directory. The font is finished, and we're all ready to go. So I'm just going to go up to File and choose Export. And it really is that simple. Now I don't have a whole lot of options here, this is the miniature version. The full version, you've got a few more options. Your two formats to choose from are opentype font and photofont, and I don't even know what that is, so I'm just going to stick with open type. Now there are a couple things that we can do here. The Use Production glyph names, if I renamed those glyphs to something logical like home, this would tell glyphs that I wanted to use those names instead of the encoding values. They're all the same, so I'm going to turn that off. Removing Overlap would remove any overlaps in my…

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