From the course: Creating Icon Fonts for the Web

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Exporting glyphs

Exporting glyphs

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Exporting glyphs

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To get our artwork into Glyphs mini, we're going to use the very simply process of copying and pasting. It's really one of the reasons I chose the Illustrator to Glyphs workflow, because it's just so simple. And it's not always that simple though. you're, if you're not going to use glyphs mini for example, you're actually going to need to import your artwork through another means. Almost all of the font Editing tools out there will import SVG files so it's helpful to know how to take your icons and export them out as SVG files. So I have the Chunky Mobile file open from the 03_10 folder. And this is more or less the finished chunky_mobile set. If I expand the Layers palette, you can see that we have, you know, all of the Glyphs in there. There's the 93 Glyphs in this particular one, and we are ready now to start exporting this artwork out. Now, I'm not going to kid you and tell you this isn't tedious. There are some scripts that folks have written out there that will take each…

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