fontsource VS woff2

Fontsource[0] is also an easy way to self-host variable fonts via NPM packages.

[0] https://fontsource.org/?variable=true

A few years ago, while I was still in high school, I began learning how to create websites purely for fun. One thing I found to be tedious was self-hosting fonts, with existing solutions to improve it completely abandoned. Consequently, I decided to learn a bit more about JavaScript by rewriting and improving these abandoned projects which led to the creation of Fontsource[0].

This project has undoubtedly set of a series of impactful events in my life, and I attribute many of my successes to it. I've had opportunities to network with numerous amazing engineers through it, leading to a part-time role and multiple internships. Companies that approached me for support also wanted to keep in touch! I also graduate this year and I am going with a full-time role from one of the aforementioned internships.

While I acknowledge my circumstances are extremely fortunate, I genuinely believe that having open source projects early on in your career can significantly contribute to standing out as a developer.

[0] https://fontsource.org

Tip: more privacy friendly Google alternatives are available and super easy to use: https://fontsource.org/

I switched most of my sites to use it and I’ve been quite happy so far.

No need to leak data to Google.

For weirder stuff (e.g. https://tidings.potato.horse) I use sites like dafont.com and convert fonts using Font Squirrel.

Fontsource publishes all Google Fonts fonts as NPM packages, allowing you to easily import them with modern bundlers.

I personally like using FontSource for this, they have some extra fonts beyond Google Fonts too

I stumbled upon fontsource.org the other day and I found the idea of installing fonts from npm packages appealing.

To do this with SvelteKit, you can use the Fontsource project. They host all of the Google Fonts catalogue as NPM packages.

The github you linked already has the framework on "how" to do it. If you are looking for the newest version, if you follow the path on that github they link you back to googles repo. Just clone this repo and compile it, and you will have the latest version.

I extracted and converted all of the fonts using ffmpeg and then https://github.com/google/woff2.git, set up the folder and made sure Jellyfin can see and select it from inside the mounted volumes on the container, and checked the enable fallback fonts box.

Font Squirrel's webfont generator is a popular tool that web devs use for generating webfonts from desktop fonts. You can also use Google's woff2_compress command line tool.

# clone woff2 git clone --recursive https://github.com/google/woff2.git # enter into the cloned repo cd woff2 # build make clean all # convert the font ./woff2_compress ~/Jost-400-Book-subset.ttf