Font Combiner unicode

Font Combiner accommodates the ISO 8859-1 character set.

The current interface also allows for the range 8352 - 8378 (x20A0 - x20BA) of the unicode currency symbols block and 57344 - 57411 (xE000 - xE043) of the unicode private use area.

Icon fonts

Icon fonts are a popular way to include simple vector graphics on web pages.

To combine icons into a standard web font:

Unicode and how to use

The unicode private use area is a special unicode range left undefined by the Unicode Consortium so that third-parties may define their own characters without conflicting with Unciode Consortium assignments.

A custom unicode character added to a font can be used on the web by including an HTML entity reference.

For example, the entity reference  included in an HTML document will reference the first slot in the Unicode private use area. This is a decimal value. Some users may find it convenient to use the equivalent hexadecimal value instead, 

This is a subset of Source Sans Pro Bold Italic, incorporating an icon from an icon font:

Typography 
(this font also includes kerning)

As an alternative to direct use of HTML entities, it's possible to include HTML content through CSS. This can be achieved with the use of a CSS2 :before or :after pseudo-elements.

For example, to include the same unicode character using CSS :after, you may use CSS escapes as follows:

.css_selector:after {
	content: " \E000";
}

to achieve a similar result:

Typography

Note that escaped CSS character references should always be set in hexadecimal.


The same system can also be useful if a font is missing a particular currency symbol:



Font Combiner is in active development and will include more unicode source options in due course.