Vector icons

2014-11-10 — 2022-08-07

Wherein various icon libraries are cataloged and methods for converting SVGs to fonts via FontForge and for building bespoke icon fonts with Glyphter or Fontello are described.

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Various libraries of vector icons are available online, either as SVG or as fonts. Here are some:

The Noun Project
Icons8
SVG Repo
Iconfinder

More complete and widely supported but bloatier: font icons such as fontawesome.

Or: construct a font of just the icons you need. An easy tool for that is Glyphter or Fontello.

You can go both directions between fonts and SVGs via the tool fontforge.

Export a glyph to SVG with fontforge command line
Export a font’s individual glyphs into svg files in batch?
Import a sequence of .svg files into FontForge as glyphs and output a font file