I am new to web design and development and have been playing around with different styling techniques. During the course of my research, I came across icon fonts. Though I have investigated a number of tutorials and videos, I have been unable to successfully make use of icon fonts despite many hours of effort.
To start, I went to a site that offers a large number of icon fonts, chose the ones I liked, generated them and finally downloaded them into a folder. But now that these icon fonts are in a folder, what should I do?
Here is a step by step guide:
Go to Font Squirrel and download the
@font-face
kit. Unzip it, rename it to 'fonts', and put it in the same directory as your html file.Use this as your html file:
You should see this:
You're rolling!
In addition, to know what character to use, check out the Character Map on the Font Squirrel site.