Impossible to search in material icons

[boubou158]

Hi,

I am trying to remove some icons I do not use in my project from the Material Icons font and regenerate it.
It is not working, i can't search anything on the file. Trying to search for a code point found on https://fonts.google.com/icons?icon.query=information for instance do not work. Neither trying to search "information" directly.

How can i do to remove the unused icons from this font?

Thank you

[adbac]

Hi,

How have you exactly searched for the codepoint? Writing "e88e" in the dialog doesn't work, you need to write "unie88e". It works for me.
If you want to have a clean view of all the icons, go to the Encoding menu and then click Compact, it makes it easier to select and clear the glyphs you don't need.

I hope this will help you

[boubou158]

Thanks a lot @adbac , this was exactly what I was looking for!
Do you mind telling me how once I remove the glyphs, how to "condense the font" as described in this article in Remove unused selectors from the font file part: https://www.shedloadofcode.com/blog/reduce-material-design-icons-font-to-7kb-and-automate-with-pyautogui

[adbac]

Are you referring to this quote ?

If this is the case, I think the author of the article meant "Compact", as I explained it in the previous comment:

If you want to have a clean view of all the icons, go to the Encoding menu and then click Compact, it makes it easier to select and clear the glyphs you don't need.

[boubou158]

Hi @adbac ,

Whatever i try (using the woff2 or the ttf), when I compact then select some specific unicodes, invert the selection, then detach and remove glyphs and generate fonts, i cant access the icons anymore. I have this warning in fontforge:
Lookup subtable contains unused glyph X making the whole subtable invalid

Then the icons are not displayed anymore on a test index.html trying to display some material icons.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you

[adbac]

Hello, I tried to delete the subtable causing the issue and it still doesn't work... I won't be able to help you on that point, sorry

[boubou158]

@adbac In case of it is useful for someone, i found the solution. After compacting, only icons glyph should be detached and removed. All the other characters should stay (beginning of the font with A to Z characters and as well the last three caracters after the icons). When those characters are not removed, font is working fine.