https://github.com/acdha/webfont-experiments

Experiments with webfonts
https://github.com/acdha/webfont-experiments

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Experiments with webfonts

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/acdha/webfont-experiments
• Owner: acdha
• License: other
• Created: 2013-05-31T23:07:00.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-11-17T15:02:22.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-14T17:55:20.489Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 3.91 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE

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Webfont Experiments

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Container for some experiments with webfonts and Unicode

Generating CSS @font-face from font files

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The goal is to automatically produce a single large stylesheet which defines webfonts using the

``unicode-range`` property to help browsers avoid downloading them until they're needed to display text on the

current page, avoiding the need for pages to explicitly hard-code all of the fonts. The second stage might be

optionally generating ``:lang()`` selectors based on Unicode ranges, although that will probably require hand

tweaking if more than one font defines a particular range.

Rough notes

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#. Install FontForge and enable the Python module (e.g. ``brew install fontforge``)

#. Confirm everything is working by getting the text inventory::

    font-unicode-inventory.py *.ttf

#. Generate your CSS::

    font-unicode-inventory.py *.woff --format=css > lots-of-fonts.css