How to use Socicon on your website
How to use Socicon on your desktop computer
- Download Socicon Desk
- Install socicon.ttf on your computer
- In your software (Illustrator, Photoshop...), copy & paste socicon glyphs
How to use Socicon on your website
- Download the font and copy the unzipped folder in a directory of your website
- Add the tag
<link rel="stylesheet" href="your/directory/to/socicon/style.css" type="text/css">
to your<head>
. - 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;
}