From the course: Creating Icon Fonts for the Web

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Organizing glyphs

Organizing glyphs

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Organizing glyphs

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I'm going to jump a little bit ahead here, and talk about the organization and structuring of the Chunky Mobile Font, and this is a way of sort of discussing the strategies of organizing the glyphs within your fonts with you in a way. That I could sort of show you the thought process used for Chunky Mobile. It's really important to have a type of organizational strategy in place before you start actually creating the font and importing artwork and creating the gliss because it's going to have an impact on and not only how easy it is to retrieve your Icons later through CSS. But also how you'll actually write the CSS that you're going to be using to display them. So you want to have that in place, kind of before you, actually start creating the font. So what you're looking at here is the actual finished open type font Chunky Mobile regular. You can actually find this in the 04_04 directory. Although it's not necessary for you to open it up unless you really just want to check out the…

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