# fontkitten

> A lightweight font data library — fontkit’s little sibling

Latest version **1.0.3** (published 2026-03-06) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install fontkitten
pnpm add fontkitten
yarn add fontkitten
bun add fontkitten
```

## Health

**Score 60/100 (C)** — status: stable.

Positive: esm support; no vulnerabilities; has provenance; high maintenance score.

Warnings: low downloads; no types.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.0.3 |
| Published | 2026-03-06 |
| First published | 2025-10-28 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | none |
| Module format | ESM |
| Node | >=20 |
| Dependencies | 1 |
| Unpacked size | 337.2 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| Provenance | attested (GitHub Actions) |
| GitHub stars | 22 |
| Maintainers | delucis |
| Keywords | opentype, font, typography, emoji, glyph |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/fontkitten
- Repository: https://github.com/delucis/fontkitten
- Homepage: https://github.com/delucis/fontkitten#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/delucis/fontkitten/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/fontkitten

## Dependencies (1)

- [tiny-inflate](https://npm.io/package/tiny-inflate.md) ^1.0.3

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## Recent versions

- 1.0.3 (latest) — 2026-03-06
- 1.0.2 — 2026-01-16
- 1.0.1 — 2026-01-13
- 1.0.0 — 2025-11-18
- 0.0.16 — 2025-11-18
- 0.0.15 — 2025-11-17
- 0.0.14 — 2025-11-17
- 0.0.13 — 2025-11-15
- 0.0.12 — 2025-11-14
- 0.0.11 — 2025-11-12
- 0.0.10 — 2025-11-06
- 0.0.9 — 2025-11-05
- 0.0.8 — 2025-11-04
- 0.0.7 — 2025-10-30
- 0.0.6 — 2025-10-30
- … 5 more at https://npm.io/package/fontkitten/versions

## README

<h1 align="center">fontkitten</h1>
<p align="center">A smaller font file parser</p>
<p align="center">
  <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/fontkitten"><img alt="fontkitten on NPM" src="https://img.shields.io/npm/v/fontkitten"></a>
  <a href="https://github.com/delucis/fontkitten/actions/workflows/ci.yml"><img src="https://github.com/delucis/fontkitten/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg" alt="CI status"></a>
</p>

Fontkitten is a font data library, focused on font file parsing and metadata extraction.

- 22x smaller install size than `fontkit`
- 3x smaller bundle size than `fontkit`
- Drop-in replacement for the supported APIs
- Built-in TypeScript types

Based on the [`fontkit`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/fontkit) package, Fontkitten aims to offer a lighter weight alternative for projects that do not require the full feature set of `fontkit`.
See [“Differences from Fontkit”](https://github.com/delucis/fontkitten/blob/main/DOCS.md#differences-from-fontkit) for full details of changed APIs.

## Documentation

[Read the full documentation →](https://github.com/delucis/fontkitten/blob/main/DOCS.md)

## License

MIT

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