title: Creating icon fonts with vector software (i.e. inkscape) and fontforge?
body: <p>Through getting some answers here and some research, I've come across a new approach to implementing icons. Rather than as images or css background, it seems you can approach icons as a font.</p>
  
  <p>Will this method ultimately mean creating a one file font set that has each icon assigned to a character? Because this method is so new to me I really want to sure I approach it correctly first (I see great potential... so much better than creating different icons, exporting each as it's own .png file for every different color and size). </p>
  
  <p>If that's the case, it'll take a bit of memorization (especially since I have over 26 icons). For those more experienced with fontforge, is there a way to say a specific word = character?</p>
  
  <p>Also, in regards to implementing this on the website. I would then need to specify the font type within the css class/id (i.e. font=icons; ). And then I could change the size, color, etc. with css as well? Man, if this really is true. I wish I found out earlier... hours and hours could have been saved.</p>
  
  <p>Anyway, any help with this is greatly appreciated. I'm about to get fontforge and start learning (if there's better free software for font creation, let me know). Hopefully this works out. </p>