How to make pictures for a sprite from a font?

Question

css

I read a topic about Font Awesome and decided to make a set of icons in the form of a sprite out of it. And got into a stupor. Is it possible to distill the font into brushes for photoshop?

Answer 1

I can't advise anything about brushes, but you can use imagemagick to create a sprite.
symbols.txt - symbols
fontawesome-webfont.ttf - font
Example archive

#!/usr/bin/env bash

convert \
  -size 400x50 \
  -background transparent \
  -font font/fontawesome-webfont.ttf \
  -pointsize 25 \
  -fill black \
  -gravity South \
  label:@text/symbols.txt \
  -flatten out/sprite.png

Answer 2

If you are for the web, then why not use the ability to include the font in css?