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Create an icon font

Create an icon font

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Create an icon font

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- [Instructor] Sometimes you don't need a whole font, but just an icon set for a very specific usage. In this scenario, I want to create a series of circled numbers and letters. I'm working on a project that includes a lot of diagrams and I want to use circled numbers and letters as labels for those diagrams. They might also serve as bullets. Now I've also included zero for the numbers, just so that they can be added to Fontself in the sequence that it requires, but I don't anticipate going into double digit numbers. And with the letters I'm only going as far as H, because I figure that if my labels go beyond that then the diagram is too complicated. In this project I'm using a font called Source Sans. As its name suggests, it's an open source font. Here I have Source Sans black and this is what I want to use as the basis for my circled numbers and letters. I've typed out the numbers and letters. Before I convert them to…

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