FontAwesome 4.7 Subset

This project is forked from https://github.com/omacranger/fontawesome-subset and modified to work with FontAwesome 4.7

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Love FontAwesome but don't need thousands of icons bundled on every page of the site? Me either. fontawesome-subset is a utility for creating subsets of FontAwesome for optimized use on the web. It works by taking glyph names that you've used (angle-left, caret-up, etc) and creating an optimized font with only the glyphs you need. Yes, SVG icons and fragments are fancier and more feature filled - but if you already have a website built using the webfont - why switch -- right?

Usage

Install:

npm install --save-dev fontawesome-subset 

Run via your favorite task runner:

// Require fontawesome-subset
const fontawesomeSubset = require('fontawesome-subset');

// Create or append a task to be ran with your configuration
fontawesomeSubset(['check','square','caret-up'], 'out');

Full Options

fontawesomeSubset(subset, output_dir, options)

• subset - Array containing list of glyph names (icon names) that you want to limit the subset to.
• output_dir - Directory that you want the webfonts to be generated in. Relative to current NPM process. Ex: out

The above example would output a directory with the following structure:

/out/
    fontawesome-webfont-subset.eot
    fontawesome-webfont-subset.svg
    fontawesome-webfont-subset.ttf
    fontawesome-webfont-subset.woff
    fontawesome-webfont-subset.woff2

It is still up to you to determine which glyphs you need and to pass them to the function to generate the webfonts. I recommend optimizing your CSS files as well to get the most from the tool.

Contributing: Publish

Once changes are ready to be published, use "np publish" to publish to the repository