icon-loader 😐

I feel stupid for creating yet another font loader, but here it is.

I wanted a font loader to:

• extract a subset of glyphs
• convert TTF to other formats
• not haphazardly write files to my filesystem
• require no additional setup

Apparently, you can only choose two.

Usage

Install this loader and fontmin:

$ npm install --save-dev icon-loader fontmin

Hook it up somewhere in your webpack config:

// webpack config
{
  test: /\.(eot|ttf|woff2?)(\?.*)?$/,
  use: [ 'file-loader', 'icon-loader' ] // or url-loader
}

Import your font and use the glyphs= query option to select the glyphs to extract from your font. In SCSS you can of course build your list of glyphs programmatically as well. Here's an example for Font Awesome:

@import '~font-awesome/scss/_variables.scss';
 
/* the glyph= query parameter is used by the loader to determine which glyphs to extract */
/* $fa-font-path and $fa-var-meh-o are variables defined by font-awesome */
 
$fa-font-path: '~font-awesome/fonts';
$fa-font-query: 'v=#{$fa-version}&glyphs=#{unquote($fa-var-meh-o)}';
 
@font-face {
  font-family: 'FontAwesome';
  src: url('#{$fa-font-path}/fontawesome-webfont.eot?#{$fa-font-query}');
  src: url('#{$fa-font-path}/fontawesome-webfont.eot?#{$fa-font-query}') format('embedded-opentype'),
    url('#{$fa-font-path}/fontawesome-webfont.woff?#{$fa-font-query}') format('woff'),
    url('#{$fa-font-path}/fontawesome-webfont.ttf?#{$fa-font-query}') format('truetype');
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
}
 
@import '~font-awesome/scss/_mixins.scss';
@import '~font-awesome/scss/_core.scss';

Legalese

MIT and stuff