Why does the fontello icon generator reduce the line thickness of icons?

Question

Icons

Hello! There is an icon drawn in illustrator:

I want to create a font family in the Fontello icon generator , but for some reason it distorts it and I get an icon with thin lines at the output.

How to achieve the image exactly exactly, namely in particular the boldness of the lines?

Answer 1

Because in the example there is a huge icon and a tiny one. Scale down anything, any raster or vector image, and always scale down and lines and everything will be smaller. It's like obvious things. If the small icon had the same line thickness as the top one, it would look like a black spot. but that's all theory.
In practice, click on Help / Wiki, then the item "How to use custom images" and here https://github.com/fontello/fontello/wiki/How-to-u... read about the requirements for uploading files, everything is there clearly written - no strokes, only one black object merged together. Here is the answer.
PSDo you want perfectly uniform line thickness in all sizes? Create individual icons and adapt them to different sizes. I always say this to clients, to which they always tell me “but the vector can be scaled”, and then they get the same result and are surprised :D
PPS In general, in order for a small icon to be more readable, you need to take this into account in a large one. Now you have drawn (or not you, but someone else) an icon that looks good (but not really) on the half of the screen without considering the small size. If you can’t draw a large one, taking into account smaller sizes, then try to make it small first, and then increase it and look at the result. Then you take the average value and make the final result. My main specialization is icons, trust my experience)