I created an Icon-font from “scratch”, meaning I used no standard characters but inserted characters from the private use area of Unicode(mostly), and placed in them the icons I designed.
Now, I used the fontsquirrel tool to create the other font-types to use it on web, however it doesn’t work. As mentioned in other post I had used some currency signs’ specific Unicode mapping, like yen, pound dollar and so on and when I tested this font only the ones in latin (and maybe latin extended) worked, the rest didn’t; I changed them all to the private use area, and now (even though they work in my pc) they don’t show at all on web.
I used a demo page of another iconfont locally and it displays perfectly, then changed the css to call my font but it didnt work, since I don’t really know css I changed the other fonts’ name to the exact same ones of my font’s files(in the same folder and all) and now it does display the other font, using my font’s exact path, so it’s not an issue of implementation but of the font itself.
I checked within FontCreator both font’s properties and settings and they are the same, or at least I can’t find any difference at all.
What should I be looking for regarding this problem?
I’ll send you an email where I’ll ask you to send us an email with the font, and if possible along with the other font that seems to work, css, etc.
We’ll then look into this issue.
Thank you, I’m sorry for not double-checking before submitting my question, it just seems like fontsquirrel gave me faulty fonts, they seemed to have no character info and weighted around 10% of my original font (3k compared to 32k), which is the one I was comparing to the iconfont I got my hands on. I used onlinefontconverter and the fonts are comming up alright now.
That is good news. I’m glad you’ve found a way to make it work.
Just curious, what output format do you use for your web fonts?
Thanks,
the standard set of font formats used to display a font for web that I’ve seen are eot, otf, svg, ttf and woff.
But which one(s) do you use?