fontmachine

Make GL-ready PBFs and metadata for use in glyphs API.

Usage

makeGlyphs(opts, callback)

Make all metadata (codepoints) and SDF PBFs necessary for Mapbox GL fontstacks.

Parameters

parameter	type	description
opts	{ font: Buffer, filetype: String }	An object with a font file and its file type (e.g. .ttf).
callback	Function	Callback should take arguments (error, result).

Returns Object, font An object containing all files and data.

• {String} font.fontname The name of this font (concatenated family_name + style_name).
• {Array} font.stack An array of {name: filename, data: buffer} objects with SDF PBFs covering points 0-65535.
• {Object} font.metadata An object where data is a stringified codepoints result.
• {Object} font.original An object containing the original font file (named "original{.filetype}")

Installation

Requires nodejs.

$ npm install fontmachine

Tests

$ npm test