How to convert an Adobe Illustrator file to only one colour?

Question

I'm trying to generate a new IcoMoon font by uploading this .ai image to IcoMoon.

a simple .ai file

However, once I upload the image and generate the font. IcoMoon generates a multicolor font:

But I don't want to generate a Multicolor font. IcoMoon shows the solution and says that:

Now I have Adobe Illustrator, but how can I change all colours in the .ai file to a single colour?

Answer 1

i checked the file you uploaded and you have multiple layers on top of each other,

what you can do is delete the excess layers then add the color you want and export it as svg