Iblis Font

Embedding SVG by creating your own font

CSS and web font files example to easily embeded in a font your own logos or icons in SVG.

The purpose is also to show how to create your own font.

🧐   Why

When you use javascript or typescript (with React or React Native for example) it could be difficult to display a SVG file in your app.

Many libraries exists but looks a little too much complicated to use :

• React Inline Svg Load the SVG with an XHR request and then embed it in the document
• React Native Svg Didn't success to easy load my own SVG from a file

💡   Solution

By creating your own font, you can easily use your SVG file by displaying it like normal text.

📟   Demos

• See fonts use  in the Font Test Drive
• Demo source

📌   Install

npm install iblis-font

or

yarn install iblis-font

💻   Usage

Iblis-Font assume you’re using webpack to process CSS and files. This package includes all necessary font files (woff, eot, ttf, svg) and a CSS file with font-face declarations pointing at these files.

You will need to have webpack setup to load css and font files. Many tools built with Webpack will work out of the box with Typefaces such as Gatsby and Create React App.

To use, simply require the package in your project’s entry file e.g.

// Load Iblis Font
require('iblis-font')

You can then display the icon by typing :



Or if you use React:

   <div style={{ fontFamily: 'Iblis' }}>
       {'\ue900'}
   </div>

If you are using react native for iOS :

In info.plist add for the key: <key>UIAppFonts</key> the value in array <string>Iblis.ttf</string>

Add the Iblis.ttf to your assets folder and lauch react-native link to link the file with your android and iOS project

How to create your own font

First you need to have your icons in SVG format

To create the font I use the online tools: IcoMoon App

You need to import your svg file

Then select all the icon your want for your font and click on generate font

Then in the zip you can find the fonts in the /fonts folder and the style.css

🕺   Contribute

1. Fork this repository to your own GitHub account and then clone it to your local device
2. Send a pull request 🙌

🔨   Todo

• Add more icons

💊   Known issues:

• Nothing for the moment

🙏   Thanks:

• Typefaces for giving me the idea
• IconMoon to allow to create your own font for free