Font-spider NPM

font-spider

Font-spider is a compress tool for WebFont which can analyze your web-page intelligently to find the fonts out which have been used and then compress them.

字蛛是一个智能 WebFont 压缩工具，它能自动分析出页面使用的 WebFont 并进行按需压缩。

フォント・スパイダー（font-spider）は、Webフォントを圧縮するためのスマートなツールです，Webページに使用されるWebフォントを分析し、必要に応じて圧縮することができます。

Feature

Font subsetter: Our tool is based on HTML and CSS analysis and completely running in local so that.
Font converter: Support woff2, woff, eot, svg font format generation.

Install

npm install font-spider -g

Use

step one: code CSS

@font-face {
  font-family: 'source';
  src: url('../font/source.eot');
  src:
    url('../font/source.eot?#font-spider') format('embedded-opentype'),
    url('../font/source.woff2') format('woff2'),
    url('../font/source.woff') format('woff'),
    url('../font/source.ttf') format('truetype'),
    url('../font/source.svg') format('svg');
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
}

.home h1, .demo > .test {
    font-family: 'source';
}

Attention: the ".ttf" file must be existed which is referred in src property of @font-face, and our font-spider will automatically generate other formats of font.

step two: compress WebFont by using font-spider

font-spider [options] <htmlFile1 htmlFile2 ...>

htmlFiles

One or more web-page addresses which support the http form.

Example:

font-spider dest/news.html dest/index.html dest/about.html

options

Usage: font-spider [options] <htmlFile ...>

Options:

  -h, --help                    output usage information
  -V, --version                 output the version number
  --info                        show only webfont information
  --ignore <pattern>            ignore the files
  --map <remotePath,localPath>  mapping the remote path to the local
  --no-backup                   do not back up fonts
  --debug                       enable debug mode

sample of parameters usage

Use the wildcard character to compress the WebFont of several HTML file:

font-spider dest/*.html

--info Show the WebFont that has been used on the website:

font-spider --info http://fontawesome.io

--ignore Ignore the file:

font-spider --ignore "icon\\.css$" dest/*.html

--map This parameter will map the WebFont of online page to local and then compress it (the local path must be an absolute path):

font-spider --map "http://font-spider.org/font,/Website/font" http://font-spider.org/index.html

Build plugins

API

See:API.md

Limitations

Only the constant texts and styles are supported, but not the dynamic elements and styles which is inserted by javascript.
The ".otf" format fonts should be transfered to ".ttf" format firstly, so that we can start our compressing work.
Only the HTML and CSS files which is encoded by utf-8 are supported.

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