From the course: Creating Icon Fonts for the Web

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Setting font info

Setting font info

From the course: Creating Icon Fonts for the Web

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Setting font info

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Before we start adding individual icons into our new icon font, we need to define some really critically important information about the font itself. Without this information, our glyphs won't be sized properly and icons might not have the level of detail that we are expecting. So I'm working with the chunky mobile font that we created in our last exercise. This one I've actually opened up from the 04_03 directory. But if you're working with the previous font, you still have it open, that's fine, it's pretty much the same exact thing. Okay, so to set the info for our font, we actually use the Font Info panel. So to find that, I'm going to go up to File, and choose Font Info. Now, this solves the mystery of why in the title bar it says chunky_mobile - new Font. Because we haven't actually properly named the font itself. The name of the file is chunky_mobile, but the name of the font right now is just new Font. So I'm going to grab this. I'm going to name it Chunky Mobile and spaces are…

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