How to use github icon set on fontello

Question

Fontello has an area where you can drag custom fonts onto. GitHub style page here shows they have a custom font I want to use on that fontello can someone please help me to import it.

Answer 1

1. Go to GitHub Style page HERE
2. Open the inspector Ctrl + Shift + C
3. Click on Fonts
4. Click on "See all fonts used in this page"
5. Find octicons section
6. Highlight and copy (with Ctrl+C, cant right click here) that box below >Used as: "octicons"
7. Open notepad and paste it there.
8. Find the format(svg) and copy it
9. Go back to firefox, type in http://github.com/ and then paste the string you copied so now in URL bar it says https://github.com//assets/octicons-cdc456dbc5906e59b8c4d1c649a4b734fb0fd97b.svg#octicons
10. Hit enter and now right click in the page after it loads and go view source
11. Save this source to your drive
12. Now go to Fontello tab and then drag the downloaded file into the area on Fontello site where it says "Drag custom SVG icons or SVG font here" on fontello DONE. Wait and magically all the github icons are now available to you!! Its grouped as "Custom Icons"

Super cool!!

Answer 2

Yeah I love the GitHub icon font "Octicons" too. Unfortunately as far as I know they're assumed to not freely available to the public - see here: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/191#issuecomment-6180040

That said - I just did some source file snooping and grabbed the TTF and other files here if you wanna try this on fontello? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7951258/fonts/octicons-from-github.com_20140302.zip

PS: If you do find a way to get a hold of them legitamitely please post an update though!