Blacksmith

Blacksmith uses FontForge to build fonts from SVG graphics.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'blacksmith'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install blacksmith

Generating fonts with Blacksmith is easy. After installing the gem create a new project directory:

$ blacksmith init name

This will generate the basic directory structure and a basic Forgefile.

name/
name/Forgefile
name/build/
name/source/

Put your glyphs into the source directory. Use a seperate SVG file for each glyph. Afterwards add them to your font by referencing the glyph in the Forgefile:

glyph 'star.svg', :code => 0x0061

To compile your font run blacksmith (without any arguments) in your projects root directory. This will generate a TTF, EOT, WOFF, and SVG version of your font as well as CSS and HTML files.

There is a set of options available to customize the generation of your font:

name         (Default: <family> <weight>)
family       (Default: Blacksmith Font)
weight       (Default: Regular)
ascent       (Default: 800)
descent      (Default: 200)
version      (Default: 1.0)
copyright
baseline
scale
offset

When adding glyphs you may pass these additional options:

:code                (Required)
:name
:left_side_bearing   (Default: 15)
:right_side_bearing  (Default: 15)
:scale
:offset

You may add more templates or even override every template by creating a support directory and adding a font.<format>.tt file. Blacksmith will evaluate every template matching this format during font generation. Have a look at Blacksmith's support directory for further reference.

Make sure that all your SVGs contain a viewBox definition. Otherwise, weird things might happen.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request