What is Reddit's opinion of Fontastic?

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http://fontastic.me/ lets you choose from catalogs of pre-exisiting icons, specify CSS class selectors and upload your own svgs then it turns it into one file and can host it on a CDN for you. Fantastic service.

It really depends. If I plan on animating the icons, I make them with objects in KLWP. Otherwise I just download them from the internet or make them in Inkscape if I can't find anything that suits my needs. I highly recommend Flaticon and Fontastic for all your icon needs!

What I did was I used this app to extract the icons of all the apps on my phone (or you could just use google). Once I had the icons, I used a photo tracing tool like this to give them the look they have now. You can then download the icons as image files (png) and use them in KLWP as is, OR, if you want more customizability, you could convert those pngs into svgs and use Fontastic to turn them into fonts

ok, here's how to do it. this took all of 10 mins to do so it's REALLY simple. Here's a link to the .ai file so you can follow along with the steps. http://www.filedropper.com/fontwork

1. Create a shape similar height to the height of the text you're creating. Give it some jagged edges for character. Once your happy, make sure it goes horizontally, create a new Art Brush.
2. Create a base layer using another font.
3. Create a new layer and using simple strokes create a rough approximation of the base font.
4. Apply the art brush to the stroke and voila!
5. Now combine the shapes using unite to make each letter.
6. Give it all a gradient fill.
7. Duplicate this layer and swap the fill for a nice fat stroke using a complimentary colour. Remember to open the stroke panel and set corner spacing to Round Join (the one in the middle). This way you don't have crazy spikes everywhere.
8. Create another layer above the gradient fill and draw in some highlights.
9. If you want to make a font out of it then at step 5, after you've united your shapes (you'll obviously have to make a full alphabet) you need to save them individually as svg files and nip over to http://fontastic.me/ and create your font.

Hope this helps.

I'm a bit shocked to not find these ones in the article:

FontAwesome Fontastic

FontAwesome is hands-down a perfect resource, containing every icon you might possibly need in FED! And all free, of course. FontAwesome is a great source to start!

Fontastic is is an even broader resource, as it allow you to create your own icon fonts from svg in their web interface! And they feature some cool open source icon sets to start with, as well. And they allow for fetchng the fonts in your projects on their hosted cdn, so there is absolutely no hassling around static assets!

Both of the above will make your icon life waaaaay easier :) Or at least they make my life a lot easier :p

Hi! I created my font using http://fontastic.me. It allows you to import svg as font. So I imported those icons.

If you want them, just import my font into fontastic! :) https://github.com/skjnldsv/dotfiles/raw/master/.local/share/fonts/customfontastic.svg

http://fontastic.me allows you to make custom icon sets and download them. It's my favorite tool for this. fontawesome is good but can add quite a bit of weight to your pages if you used the entire set.

googles up the watchtowers

ponders fourteen years of using Illustrator

Here is how I'd try to make creating one of these go faster:

1. draw the little square-in-a-square element the tables are made of, make a grid of it.
2. make a custom font with each of the symbols. You can use serious font creation software or you can use something like http://fontastic.me to build a quick icon font. Or you could just google for "enochian font", it looks like there's a few of those out there.
3. create a text block. This block will be for the top symbol of each little square. Adjust tabs and line spacing so you can just type a character, then hit tab to go to the next one.
4. Duplicate your text block four more times, moving it a little, to create text blocks for the left, right, bottom, and middle symbols of each little square. Fill them appropriately. It may be easier if you put these text blocks on their own layers, and hide the ones you're not working on.
5. Duplicate and edit this whole mess for the other three sides of the pyramid.

Basically I notice some VERY strong patterns of repetition across the table, and think you could leverage this to make it go faster.

You could also drop bitmaps of the tables in and create a quick mask, to hide everything but the upper/left/right/bottom/middle symbol (as appropriate) while typing them into your text boxes.

Man!! Me too!! I signed up and I'm going through their lists. It's awesome!!

Edit: Whoops, wrong one I meant Fontastic. I'm downloading font-awesome right now though. Anything else you can tell me about it?