Utility to automatically subset fonts for serving on the web. Can generates a combined list of every glyph used on a list of sample files or urls.
npm install -g glyphhanger
# local file
> glyphhanger ./test.html
> glyphhanger ./test.txt
# output characters instead of Unicode code points
> glyphhanger ./test.html --string
# remote URL
> glyphhanger http://example.com
# multiple URLs, optionally using HTTPS
> glyphhanger https://google.com https://www.filamentgroup.com
Use --subset=*.ttf to select some font files for subsetting. Note that you can also subset yourself manually with pyftsubset, although I’m not sure why you would.
> glyphhanger ./test.html --subset=*.ttf
Subsetting LatoLatin-Regular.ttf to LatoLatin-Regular-subset.ttf (was 145.06 KB, now 24 KB)
Subsetting LatoLatin-Regular.ttf to LatoLatin-Regular-subset.zopfli.woff (was 145.06 KB, now 14.34 KB)
Subsetting LatoLatin-Regular.ttf to LatoLatin-Regular-subset.woff2 (was 145.06 KB, now 11.37 KB)
# Subset to specific characters only (no URLs)
> glyphhanger --whitelist=ABCD --subset=*.ttf
Subsetting LatoLatin-Regular.ttf to LatoLatin-Regular-subset.ttf (was 145.06 KB, now 4.42 KB)
Subsetting LatoLatin-Regular.ttf to LatoLatin-Regular-subset.zopfli.woff (was 145.06 KB, now 2.84 KB)
Subsetting LatoLatin-Regular.ttf to LatoLatin-Regular-subset.woff2 (was 145.06 KB, now 2.24 KB)
# Specify the formats to create (Available: ttf,woff,woff-zopfli,woff2)
> glyphhanger --whitelist=ABCD --formats=woff2,woff --subset=*.ttf
Subsetting LatoLatin-Regular.ttf to LatoLatin-Regular-subset.woff (was 145.06 KB, now 2.88 KB)
Subsetting LatoLatin-Regular.ttf to LatoLatin-Regular-subset.woff2 (was 145.06 KB, now 2.24 KB)
# whitelist specific characters
> glyphhanger https://google.com --whitelist=abcdefgh
# shortcut to whitelist all of US-ASCII
> glyphhanger https://google.com --US_ASCII
# use both together
> glyphhanger https://google.com --whitelist=™ --US_ASCII
# use without a URL (useful for manual subsetting)
> glyphhanger --whitelist=ABCD --subset=*.ttf
Finds all the <a href> elements on the page with local (not external) links and adds those to the glyphhanger URLs. If you specify --spider-limit, --spider is assumed.
> glyphhanger ./test.html --spider
> glyphhanger ./test.html --spider-limit=10
# No limit
> glyphhanger ./test.html --spider-limit=0
Default --spider-limit is 10. Set to 0 for no limit. This will greatly affect how long the task takes.
# verbose mode
> glyphhanger https://google.com --verbose
# version
> glyphhanger --version
See https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools.
pip install fonttools
# Additional installation for --flavor=woff2
git clone https://github.com/google/brotli
cd brotli
python setup.py install
# Additional installation for --flavor=woff --with-zopfli
git clone https://github.com/anthrotype/py-zopfli
cd py-zopfli
git submodule update --init --recursive
python setup.py install
GlyphHanger uses Mocha for testing.
npm test will run the tests.
Or, alternatively:
./node_modules/mocha/bin/mocha (or just mocha if you already have it installed globally with npm install -g mocha).
> glyphhanger https://www.zachleat.com/web/ --spider --spider-limit=5 > glyphhanger_zachleat_output
> cat glyphhanger_zachleat_output
U+20,U+21,U+23,U+24,U+26,U+28,U+29,U+2B-3A,U+3F-5B,U+5D,U+61-7A,U+BB,U+2013,U+2014,U+2019,U+201C,U+201D,U+2192,U+2600,U+2605,U+27A1,U+FE0F,U+1F525
> pyftsubset sourcesanspro-regular.ttf --unicodes-file=glyphhanger_zachleat_output --flavor=woff
# Reduces the 166KB .ttf font file to an 8KB .woff web font file.
You can use --string to use String values instead, but first (read Issue #4 on why Unicode code points are better)