Monday, March 24, 2014

Iconion: Converts Icon Fonts To Icon Files

Icon fonts are quickly becoming a web design trend and there is a good reason for that. Instead of working with a load of files in different resolutions or large sprites to be controlled by CSS, we simply embed a special font. Creating icons with icon fonts gives designers the ability to manipulate the icons with CSS, and it can improve load times by up to 15%, and because they're vector in nature, they're infinitely scalable, while still being smaller in size than an image sprite.



But what if you need to use these icons in a desktop or mobile application? Or create a website favicon or multi-colored icon?
The only answer is old-fashioned image icons in png or ico format. Iconion allows you to convert any icon font into fantastic-looking png icons by adding color, shadow, background, gradient, stroke and many other fancy elements.


What you can do with Iconion?

With Iconion you can select icons from Font Awesome, Entypo, Linecons, Typeicons and any other symbol fonts you like. You can select any size, without having to worry about the size, 8px or 1024px, the images will be of the same crisp quality. Add style: Icon color, Icon shadow and Icon long shadow, Gradient, Stroke, Icon rotate, Background, Background color, Background gradient, Background shadow, Background border, Rotate. Or just apply one of awesome pre-made templates.
Your final result can be save as png, bmp, jpeg or ico files.


How to use Iconion

Iconion have an interface divided into 3 sections. The left part of the screen lets you select icons from the popular Typeicons, Linecons, Font Awesome and Entypo. But the developer promise to launch a future version that will allow users to work with any symbol font.



The right part which is the style section, allows you to select a style for your icons. There are a lot of fancy styles to choose from. Also, you can easily customize icon and background color, border, size, shadow, gradient and many other parameters. All the pre-made styles can be changed to your liking from an editor below the styles window.

Now, the middle part which is the "Preview & Save" section allows you to control the look of your icon by changing the "Icon" or "Background" properties in their respective tabs. After you are done with the editing, icons can be saved as images after a click on Save Icon button.


Licenses

Iconion offers two licenses. One entitles you to use Iconion for free for non-commercial purposes. And the other one requires you to have a commercial license if you are going to use Iconion in a profit-oriented project.

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