After many months of work, the new version of the IcoMoon app was released. Check it out and please let us know if you have any feedback: Google Group, Twitter
More details about the new version and its features will be posted in the near future.
Migrating from the old version
Session files exported from the old app are not compatible with the new version. But if you generate a font pack using the old version, it should contain a file ending with “dev.svg” located under the fonts folder. You can import this file to the new version of the app using the purple “Import Icons” button. After importing this file, click on the menu at the top right corner of the set that was imported and press “Select All”.
The first one is called 80 Shades of White Icons made by Victor Erixon. This set features eighty beautifully crafted icons, optimized for (16 × N)px.
The second icon set is called Steadysets. Designed by Tommy Sähl, this set features 140 icons with a unique style. Icons in this set are optimized for (24 × N)px.
Please enjoy and remember to support the work of these designers.
Font Antialiasing in Windows
Update: Chrome was updated (in version 37) to use DirectWrite for its font rendering which solved the antialiasing problem.
The Windows version of Chrome doesn’t have the best font rendering. The result looks pixelated and it has no antialiasing. One solution to this problem is prioritizing the loading of SVG fonts over the other formats (in your @font-face in CSS). I wrote about this technique a long time ago and I have been using it in IcoMoon, too.
SVG fonts lack compression and therefore they are very larger in size compared to other font formats. But I think this larger size is worth getting rid of the pixelated font rendering in Windows. (SVG fonts also render slightly better in other operating systems.)
Unfortunately, there is a strange bug (Issue 95102) in the Windows version of Chrome that randomly occurs and causes unwanted results and layout breaks. This bug happens very randomly and therefore it is hard to reproduce. According to some of IcoMoon users, this problem goes away when they use the PUA encoding; but due to the random nature of this bug, I can’t confidently guarantee that using PUA encodings completely solves the problem. Therefore, I had to change IcoMoon’s default CSS to prioritize WOFF fonts over SVGs. But if you really care about the Windows version of Chrome, and if you’d like to get smooth and antialiased results, there is still one more workaround (taken from this stackoverflow answer) which you can safely use. In addition to your original @font-face (with the WOFF font on top), use the following:
More information about these packages can be found on the Icon Packs page.
Update: Importing Generated Fonts
The IcoMoon app was updated. Every generated pack now includes an additional SVG font which ends with .dev.svg. By importing this SVG font, your current selection of icons would be cleared. Instead, all the glyphs in the imported font will be selected. This makes modifying your previously generated fonts easier.
Update Emails Sent, Upgrade Option Now Available
If you are an old customer of IcoMoon, you must have received an update email with a unique link, which gives you access to the latest update to IcoMoon’s icon packs. Using this link, you can also sign up. Make sure you check your spam folder. If you didn’t receive such an email, please contact us.
Notice to old customers: You need to sign up for an account before attempting to log in.
If you purchased IcoMoon’s Essential Pack, you can upgrade to the Ultimate pack by paying only $24. You can find this upgrade button in your profile page.
New Site, New Service, 210 New Icons
IcoMoon has a new home! This new website is a great improvement to the previous one. It's fully Ajaxed, and we used H5BP, Modernizr, Sass, OOCSS, Responsive Web Design, and IcoMoon for its icons! You can now sign up for free, to receive update newsletters, and our upcoming free services.
Check it out for yourself. If you see any problems, please report it via the contact form.
We are also introducing a new service, the "Icon Delivery Network", which is powered by Amazon, and it makes it really easy to use, update and manage your icon fonts through the IcoMoon App.
And as always, we have new icons for you. 210 New icons were added overall, and a few icons were tweaked and improved.
If you purchased IcoMoon’s icon pack before this update, you must have received an update email. Make sure you check your spam folder. If you didn’t receive any emails, use the contact form and let us know.
Thanks to everyone who’s been supporting this project. This service will continue to grow and get better.
New Feature: Ligatures
IcoMoon App was updated to allow making ligatures. This means that you can now use a set of letters (instead of one), for the encoding of each icon/glyph. Ligatures are not supported in IE 9 (and older). But IE 10 and other modern browsers support it. You can learn more about this OpenType font feature here.
95 New Icons
95 new icons were added to the paid version of IcoMoon. This package was also updated to include PDF and AI files, both of which contain all the icons. That can be useful in case you need to have access to all the icons in one place.
Free Icon Set Now Features 300 Icons
The free version of IcoMoon has been updated with a lot of new icons! This package now features 300 icons and it is available on github. All these icons are now loaded to the IcoMoon App by default. You may also use the import button to load the SVG font included in the package.
