6 Free Tools for Creating Your Own Icon Font

In spite of the fact that there are numerous symbol text style sets, (for example, Font Awesome and Iconic) that you can promptly use in your UI outlines, there are times when you might need to produce your own particular custom symbol textual style. Case in point, you may have symbols that you have composed that you might want to change over into a symbol textual style set, or maybe you might want to consolidate symbols from different symbol textual style sets.

Luckily, making symbol text styles is genuinely basic. Here are some free symbol textual style generators that permit you to make your own particular symbol text styles.

1. Fontello

Fontello offers a simple platform you can use to generate your own icon font. To create your icon font, simply drag SVG files from your computer and drop them on the area located under the "Custom Icons" heading. You can also incorporate icons from free icon sets by selecting them in Fontello.

2. IcoMoon App

The IcoMoon App allows you to import your own icons as well as include icons from the IcoMoon icon set and other free icon sets. The total number of icons available within the IcoMoon App is in the thousands.

3. Icon Vault

To generate your own icon font with Icon Vault, you first have to download their template package. Then just follow the instructions included in the template package. Once you’re done, upload your icons onto Icon Vault.

4. Pictonic Fontbuilder

The Pictonic Fontbuilder allows you to choose from Pictonic’s free and paid icons in order to build your own customized Pictonic icon font. Pictonic has over 2,700 icons to choose from, and over 300 of them are free. Accessing the Pictonic Fontbuilder requires account sign-up.

5. Glyphter

When you go to Glyphter, you will see a character grid on the left. The right side of the screen, called the "icon shelf", is where you will find free icons and a search bar. Simply drag and drop the icons you want to use from the icon shelf, into one of the boxes on the grid. You can also upload your own SVG icon files by clicking on the boxes on the grid. You can have up to 88 icons in your icon font for free. If you need to have more icons, you will need to sign up for a premium account.

6. Fontastic

To generate your own icon font with Fontastic, select icons from the available free icon sets (such as Streamline Icons and Entypo) and/or upload your own custom SVG icons. Once you’re all set, go to the "Publish" tab, where you will have the option to host your icon font on Fontastic’s Icon Cloud or download your icon font. Accessing the Fontastic icon font generator requires account sign-up.