Symbol Fonts: an Automated Workflow - Kate Leroux & Tony Cannistra, onX Maps

Symbol Fonts: an Automated Workflow
Kate Leroux & Tony Cannistra, onX Maps
As an outdoor-focused company, onX uses many icons to designate recreational points of interest on our maps. In this talk, we’ll first describe how we use Figma to organize icons across our apps and communicate our iconography with other internal teams. We’ll also share the automated workflow we developed that builds stylesheet glyphs and font files for web clients, and ensures a stable synchronization of glyph identifiers across our systems.
This presentation was made at the 2024 annual meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). For more information on NACIS, check out NACIS.org.