How to use Socicon on your website

| by Teddy Payet

How to use Socicon on your desktop computer

  1. Download Socicon Desk
  2. Install socicon.ttf on your computer
  3. In your software (Illustrator, Photoshop...), copy & paste socicon glyphs

How to use Socicon on your website

  1. Download the font and copy the unzipped folder in a directory of your website
  2. Add the tag <link rel="stylesheet" href="your/directory/to/socicon/style.css" type="text/css"> to your <head>.
  3. Then, add the Socicon CSS class to any HTML tag + your styles. For example : class="socicon-github" for the icon:

Use Socicon with @font-face, local font

After downloading the font, you can declare the font in your CSS stylesheet. Use your path to the font, the one here is for example purpose.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Socicon';
  src:  url('fonts/Socicon.eot');
  src:  url('fonts/Socicon.eot#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
    url('fonts/Socicon.woff2') format('woff2'),
    url('fonts/Socicon.ttf') format('truetype'),
    url('fonts/Socicon.woff') format('woff'),
    url('fonts/Socicon.svg#Socicon') format('svg');
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
}

Then, you have to create a new CSS class that uses Socicon icons font. Here, a small example:

[class^="socicon-"], [class*=" socicon-"] {
  font-family: 'Socicon' !important;
  speak: none;
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-variant: normal;
  text-transform: none;
  line-height: 1;

  /* Better Font Rendering =========== */
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}