Somewhat relatedly: http://fontello.com . Helps you generate your own icon fonts using a smaller selection of icons instead of using the entire Font Awesome library, which can be up to 253kB depending on your browser. There's a great gem for using it with rails [1], a cli [2] and grunt task [2]. [1] https://github.com/railslove/fontello_rails_converter [2] https://github.com/paulyoung/fontello-cli [3] https://github.…
Is there a similar library that can use local assets? I'd prefer to remove an external website dependency from my build process if possible.
I had that same question some time ago. I found that Google uses Python bindings[1] for fontforge, but it had that dependency on fontforge. So I opted for a Python-based solution called fonttools[2] instead, and it works pretty well. It comes with a utility called pyftsubset which you can use like so:
pyftsubset FontAwesome.otf U+f0{2c,9e,99}
[1] https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/...