Fontite, an icon font optimization tool for smaller and faster websites

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I was frustrated with the state of tooling for working with icons on the web. You're either forced to serve gigantic font files with more icons than you could possibly need, or you have to customize your fonts in a browser-based tool.I wanted a CLI program with a simple configuration format, so that I could integrate it with my static site generator build process and version control.I built fontite to fulfill that need. The linked page demonstrates how you might use it to combine icons from 7 different WOFF2 and SVG sources, and only require about 4kB to serve all of them, with no JS required!I now use this on my personal website [1] and I'm very happy with it. If you're curious, there's mor

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Website: fontite.antonok.com