https://github.com/dotcore64/fontfacegen

Browser font-face generator for creating browser usable fonts from ttf's or otf's
https://github.com/dotcore64/fontfacegen

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Browser font-face generator for creating browser usable fonts from ttf's or otf's

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dotcore64/fontfacegen
• Owner: dotcore64
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-03-19T03:20:25.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-11T04:49:44.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-13T18:53:23.161Z (7 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 1.15 MB
• Stars: 59
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 10
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# fontfacegen

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From a ttf or otf, generate the required ttf, eot, woff, svg and css for the

font to be used in browsers.

## Installing

    npm install --save-dev fontfacegen

## Requirements:

- [`fontforge`](https://fontforge.org/docs/)

### Installing fontforge

On MacOS:

    brew install fontforge

On Ubuntu:

    apt install fontforge

On other platforms, please refer to the [fontforge documentation](https://fontforge.org/docs/).

## Usage:

```javascript

import fontfacegen from 'fontfacegen';

const result = fontfacegen({

    source: '/path/to/source.{ttf,otf}',

    dest: '/destination/folder/',

});

```

## Options:

### source (required):

Path to the source font file in ttf or otf format.

### dest (required):

Path to the destination folder for the converted fonts to be placed in.

### css:

Path to the destination file to write the generated stylesheet to.

**Default**: `null` (Guess the css filename from the font filename)

### css\_fontpath:

Path to the font files relative to the css generated.

**Default**: `''`

### subset:

A string or array with the characters desired to be included inside the generated fonts

**Default**: `null`

### collate:

Append the source filename to the destination directory in order to collate generated fonts into separate directories.

**Default**: `false`

**IE**:

```javascript

options = {

    source: 'src/fonts/ariel.ttf',

    dest: 'dist/fonts/',

    collate: true

}

```

Will create fonts into `'dist/fonts/ariel/'`.

### embed:

**Type**: `array`

**Default**: `[]`

**Valid values**: `['woff', 'ttf']`

Type of fonts to embed directly into the generated css file as a data-uri instead of creating files for them.

## Font config files:

Font name, style and weight can be specified manually per font in a json file of the same name as the font.

For example, for the font: `fonts/sans.ttf` the config file would be: `fonts/sans.json`.

Example file format:

```json

{

    "name"   : "Super Sans",

    "weight" : "400",

    "style"  : "normal"

}

```

Note: If present, the json config file must be valid json.

## Complete example:

```javascript

import { readdirSync } from 'node:fs';

import { join, extname, basename } from 'node:path';

import fontfacegen from 'fontfacegen';

const source = 'tmp/';

const dest   = 'tmp/dest/';

const fonts  = readdirSync(source);

for (const i = fonts.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {

    const font = fonts[i];

    const extension = extname(font);

    const fontname = basename(font, extension);

    // Test with embedded ttf

    if (extension == '.ttf' || extension == '.otf') {

        fontfacegen({

            source: path.join(source, font),

            dest: dest,

            css_fontpath: '../fonts/',

            embed: ['ttf'],

            subset: 'abcdef',

            collate: true

        });

    }

};

```

## License

See the [LICENSE](LICENSE.md) file for license rights and limitations (MIT).

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