# FontCustom/fontcustom

Generate custom icon webfonts from the comfort of the command line.

Repository: https://github.com/FontCustom/fontcustom
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fontcustom
Language: Ruby
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-01-09T01:30:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 61, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5078, "days_push": 237, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3297, forks 418 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:55.564298+00:00)

## What it is
Font Custom is a Ruby command-line tool that compiles a collection of SVG files into cross-browser icon webfonts, generating the font files plus @font-face CSS and supporting assets. It is over a decade old and no longer actively maintained, as modern browsers favor inline SVG over icon fonts.

## Use cases
- generate an icon webfont from a folder of SVGs
- compile custom icon fonts from the command line
- auto-rebuild icon fonts when SVG files change
- generate @font-face CSS for a custom icon font
- create cross-browser icon fonts with woff2 and eot output

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy project that already uses icon fonts
- you need a custom icon font for old browser support
- you want a scriptable, config-driven SVG-to-font pipeline

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - inline SVG or SVG sprites are the modern approach
- you want maintained alternatives like Font Awesome, Lucide, or Heroicons
- you don't want to install FontForge and WOFF2 toolchain dependencies

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, developer-tools, graphics
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cli, ruby
- tags: icon-fonts, svg-to-font, webfonts, font-generation, ruby-gem, command-line, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- FontCustom/fontcustom (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:55.564298+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:42:57.689140+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/FontCustom/fontcustom (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:55.564298+00:00, sha 4efd050f7fda)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.