Reducing your glyph set will drastically reduce the sizes of your font. This means disabling characters you won’t use. You can simply check and see in real time your results.
Where FontPrep shines is creating subsets. However, drag OS X fonts in, and it’ll spit out a CSS file, a simple HTML Preview and SVG, TTF, WOFF and EOT although in my tests, EOT was zero bytes :/ Its far from the pinnacle of application design as it has zero OS menu integration. Its a good and bad thing, but when so much falls in a legal grey area, its nice to have a backupįontPrep is essentially a bootstrapped Ruby project wrapped in an app container. That will change but for now, any font can be converted to a webfont. I had entered a much more legal grey zone than had Font Squirrel let me embed the font.įontPrep functions almost to the letter (font puns!) like Font Squirrel but with drag and drop functionality and (currently) no blacklisting. Eventually I used FontLab to strip the font data and created a new dummy Papyrus font, effectively removing the blacklist based on me liberally interpreting the license, which stated the font could be modified.
Webfont generator license#
The license only included in the digital format a TrueType version. However, I couldn’t create an embeddable version using Font Squirrel despite legally owning it because I was blacklisted. They purchased a license for it, which was very non-specific but seemed to include embedding privileges. I had a client who insisted on using Papyrus on their website (yes I know, Papyrus is the new Comic Sans).
Webfont generator free#
Its free to use and it works wonderfully… except when it doesn’t. FontSquirrel is a web service / font distributor that allows you to generate embeds of web fonts. Web designers probably already know about FontSquirrel. I ran across this app the other day, a drag and drop webfont generator. Now this isn’t meant to be a lecture on web fonts, but its important when discussing FontPrep Like many things, the internet has been a gift and curse for typographers, as they can distribute their work easily but have it stolen even more easily. This is problematic as high quality fonts take hundreds of hours to create and foundries are left cold.
Webfont generator install#
Simply loading a webpage with an embedded font means you can source the TTF file, download it and install it.
While OS X and Windows do not use woff or svg, they do use ttf. Essentially, embedded fonts are a localized install.
Its a broken system, has really ushered in Google Fonts and Adobe Typekit for better or worse.įonts have zero copy-protection. Most licensing is based on the honor system with each foundry arbitrarily picking different conditions (page views, domains, average visitors) and expecting one to pay based on it. Web fonts are a funny thing as there isn’t a universal format for all browsers. It’s still an essential tool that I lean on a few times a year. I still use it today, but with a 10.7 Virtual Machine when FontSquirrel doesn’t suffice or I need to skirt around the copy-protection notices as FontSquirrel has no way to prove one’s license for a purchased font. It doesn’t work under Yosemite and Mavericks. Since writing this, FontPrep is now open source.
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