The latest update to the IcoMoon app introduced the option to generate PDF documents. To generate PDFs, go to the “Generate SVG, PNG, PDF” tab and check the “Include PDF” checkbox in the “Preferences” panel.
Some use cases for PDFs:
Even though SVG images can’t be imported to Adobe Photoshop, PDFs can be imported as vector “smart objects”.
You can use PDFs in Xcode 6 for iOS and OS X app development.
Icon Pack Updates
IcoMoon’s Ultimate and Essential packs were updated. The Ultimate pack now features over 1600 icons and the Essential pack comes with 950 icons.
IcoMoon’s free icon pack was also updated. It now contains 490 icons and it comes with an installable ligature font (in TTF). You can view/download it on github.
Apple Uses IcoMoon!
Interesting news! Apple is using an icon font generated by IcoMoon on their page for celebrating 30 years of Mac.
IcoMoon App, the new version
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 ร N)px.
The second icon set is called Steadysets. Designed by Tommy Sรคhl, this set features 140 icons with a unique style. Icons in this set are optimized for (24 ร 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.