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Ikonel EchoAn icon font of fat solid silhouettes: each icon is trailed by its own contour reprinted offset down-right like a misregistered second print, or sliced into facets of one stone with a colour layer. 314 icons, ten cuts. Type an icon name and the ligature draws it.
- Cuts
- 9+ 1 layer cut
- Icons
- 3148 groups
- Features
- 2calt liga
- Axes
- 0static cuts
01Styles
9 cuts + 1 layer · choose one to set it in the browserIkonel Echo
Ikonel Echo Small
Ikonel Echo Solid
Ikonel Echo Double
Ikonel Echo Stone
Ikonel Echo Stone Colour
Ikonel Echo Print
Ikonel Echo Linocut
02Icon browser
search, filter by group, click to copy03Layers
one text, stacked in one box04Information
read from the font files- Designer
- iconstructa
- Made for
- iconstructa ↗
- Version
- 1.000
- Styles
- 9 · Ikonel Echo 2 · Ikonel Echo Small 1 · Ikonel Echo Solid 1 · Ikonel Echo Double 1 · Ikonel Echo Stone 1 · Ikonel Echo Stone Colour 1 · Ikonel Echo Print 1 · Ikonel Echo Linocut 1
- Layer cuts
- 1 · Back on Solid: stacked in CSS, not text styles
- Icons
- 314 in 8 groups: arrows, interface, media, construct, creative, objects, weather, status
- Glyphs per style
- 354 (7 cuts) · 1184 (1 cut) · 1007 (1 cut)
- Features
- calt · liga
- Variable axes
- None. Every cut is a static font.
- Metrics
- 1000 upm · cap 700 · x 520 · asc 960 · desc -240
- Source files
- TTF
- On this site
- Showcase only. 709 kB of WOFF2 for the preview; nothing to download or license here.
An icon font of fat solid silhouettes: each icon is trailed by its own contour reprinted offset down-right like a misregistered second print, or sliced into facets of one stone with a colour layer. 314 icons, ten cuts. Type an icon name and the ligature draws it.
- 314 icons, each a fat solid silhouette on the 24 unit construction grid (1 u = 1/24 em, 1 u is one pixel at 24 px), live area 20 u, centred on the 960/-240 text box so icons sit on a line of Dioptra text.
- Echo print: the silhouette is trailed by its own contour reprinted offset down-right, like a misregistered second print; holes carry a nested copy of their edge. Mode is the number of echoes: Solid 0, Regular 1, Double 2. Small (16 to 24 px) has one thick echo.
- One stone: the Stone cut slices every icon with the same two planes (14 and -52 degrees) and a 1.05 u gap, so each icon is a shard of one crystal; Stone Colour paints the facets in COLRv1 (graphite G0 to G3, pop P0 to P2, three palettes) and falls back to the gapped single-colour Stone outline.
- Ten cuts: Regular, Bold, Small, Solid, Double, Stone, Stone Colour (COLRv1), Back (second print layer), Print (COLRv0 echo colour) and Linocut (display).
- Input: type the icon name (lowercase words, hyphen or underscore, e.g. arrow-right) with liga or calt on; every name is verified with HarfBuzz. Private Use codepoints are the same as Ikonel's (U+E000 to U+E3FF, blocks per category) so the two families are drop-in swaps; 70 icons also have a standard Unicode codepoint.
- Unhinted prototype; not offered for redistribution.
From Origin: ikonel-echo/README.md, ikonel-echo/DESIGN-BRIEF.md
Known limitations
- 314 of Ikonel's 322 icons are in; the rest were cut after review (see CRITIQUE.md): they did not hold up as fat solids (stroke-only ideas, near duplicates, unreadable at 16 px).
- At 16 px the 1.3 u echo of Regular is a grey halo (about 0.9 px); use Small at 16 to 24 px. Echoes of tiny parts (dots, close, list bullets) are noisy at any size, and Double is busy on dense icons (waveform, sliders, wheel).
- Stone: the cut planes are global to each glyph's own 24 u cell; a font cannot carry a plane across glyphs, so facets line up in height but do not form one continuous line across a row. At 16 px the 1.05 u gap is about 0.7 px (a hairline); Stone is meant for 24 px and up. Dense or stringy icons are left uncut by rule, and a few have plane overrides.
- Stone Colour needs COLRv1 (Chrome, Edge, Firefox; Safari shows the single-colour gapped fallback). Print is COLRv0 and works everywhere COLR works. Back and Print assume the Solid or Regular placement.
- Outlines are polylines (shapely buffers simplified to 0.012 u, about 0.5 font units), not smooth Beziers: invisible at any size but heavier than a hand-built font, and there are no hints (unhinted prototype).
- The input letters (a to z, 0 to 9, hyphen, underscore) are empty zero-width glyphs: a misspelt icon name shows nothing; names are matched as raw text with no word-boundary guard, so set the font only on icon-only spans.
- Pop parts (the orange bits) are drawn by hand for 25 icons only; the other icons are one colour in Print and Stone Colour.
- Linocut is seeded jitter, not hand-cut: a few thin shapes (chevrons, minus) lose their crisp character. It is a display cut, 40 px and up.
- Generic shapes only: no brand logos. The name 'Ikonel Echo' was not cleared in any font database.
The designer's own list, copied unchanged from the font's hand-off manifest.