grunt-font-sampler

Generates an html document with icon font character samples at specified pixel sizes for easy visualization.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.2

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-font-sampler --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-font-sampler');

The "font_sampler" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named font_sampler to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  font_sampler: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

fontname: 'Ink-Icons', charmap: 'glyphs.json', dest: 'dist/sample.html', sizes: [16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40], stylesheets: ["http://cdn.ink.sapo.pt/3.0.2/css/ink.min.css","css/ink-icons.css"], col_width: 100, sample_template: '

\n

{% size %}px

{% glyph %}

\n', glyph_template: '\n'

Options

options.fontname

Type: String Default value: 'My Font'

The font sample name.

options.charmap

Type: Json File Default value: 'glyphs.json'

Json file containing the glyphs array of css classes that match the required characters to be sampled. See glyphs.json file for more detail.

options.dest

Type: String Default value: 'dist/sample.html'

The sample file name.

options.sizes

Type: Array Default value: [16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40]

An array of pixel font sizes to be sampled.

options.stylesheets

Type: Array Default value: ["http://cdn.ink.sapo.pt/3.0.2/css/ink.min.css"]

Stylesheets to be link on the sample file.

options.col_width

Type: Integer Default value: 100

The sample layout column with. Eg. 50 will produce a two column layout.

options.sample_template

Type: String Default value: '<div class="all-{% width %} p{% size %}">\n<p>{% size %}px</p>{% glyph %}</div>\n'

HTML snippet that will will contain the samples for each size. Must have the {% width %}, {% size %} and {% glyph %} tags.

options.glyph_templace

Type: String Default value: '<span class="ii ii-{% glyph %}"></span>\n'

HTML snippet that will will contain the sampled character. Must have the {% glyph %} tag.

Usage Examples

grunt.initConfig({
  font_sampler: {
    my_sample: {
        fontname: 'My Icon Font',
        charmap: 'glyphs.json',
        dest: 'dist/sample.html',
        sizes: [16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40],
        stylesheets: ["http://cdn.ink.sapo.pt/3.0.2/css/ink.min.css","css/my-icon-font.css"],
        col_width: 100,
        sample_template: '<div class="all-{% width %} p{% size %}">\n<p>{% size %}px</p>{% glyph %}</div>\n',
        glyph_template: '<span class="ii ii-{% glyph %}"></span>\n'
    }
  },
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

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