Fontprep: Web Font Generator For Mac
After purchasing a web font license from our site, you will be able to use our Web Font Generator to download web font files for use in your site development. The Web Font Generator is a handy tool for customizing and fine-tuning those web fonts. It has lots of little features which are really helpful but may also be a little challenging or confusing to use. This article aims to help clear up any confusion to help you get the most out of the generator.
To access the Web Font Generator from the Your Fonts section of your account, click the Download button next to any web font license purchased. Then you’ll need to click Generate Web Font(s) to start the generator. You can also access the Web Font Generator from an invoice that includes a web font license by clicking the Generate Web Font(s) button in the invoice. After the generator starts select the fonts you want to create web font files for.
Once you select them, they’ll be highlighted blue. You can select a maximum of eight fonts at a time, but if you need to generate more than eight web fonts, you can run the generator multiple times. Basic The default generator setting is Basic, which will work for most users. This setting delivers standard web font files in WOFF and WOFF2 file formats and basic web font subsettings are available here. Standard The Standard setting includes all functionality from the Basic setting and adds the ability to download additional web font formats (EOT, TTF, and SVG). In nearly all cases these files are no longer necessary, but we make them available for developers supporting outdated browsers. Additionally, you can fine-tune the language subsetting (including no subsetting) and select Opentype features you want to be included in the files.
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Expert The Expert setting is where you can customize and fine-tune your web font files the most. Additional customization settings available only in the Expert setting include: Hinting Hinting is the instructions included in the font to tell it how to display legibly and clearly on a computer screen.
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These instructions are algorithmically written and we have two different algorithms (in addition to no hinting), but usually, we see the best results with TTFAutohint. Rendering Here you can remove the kerning data from the font and Fix the GASP (grid-fitting and scan-conversion procedure) table. Typically, we would always recommend keeping the kerning data decided by the designer and present in the font. Fixing the GASP table (on by default) adjusts the instructions within the font to take advantage of Windows font rendering techniques.
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Vertical Metrics Vertical metrics control the vertical spacing around the letters of the font, including empty space for ascenders, descenders, and line spacing. By default, we correct any problems with this spacing in the fonts, fine-tuning them to work the best. If you’d like to use the original vertical spacing instructions present in the font, select No Adjustment, or if you’d like to use your own values, select Custom Adjustment and enter them. X-height matching A font’s x-height is the distance between the baseline of the font and the top of the lower case characters. With this setting, you can override the font’s original x-height information by entering a different percentage (the original is 100%) or choosing to match the x-heights of some common fonts. OpenType By default, we strip out all of the OpenType features present in our web fonts when we generate them from the original desktop files to reduce the file size of the web fonts.
If you’d like to preserve any of those features present in the original font, you can type the typographic tag of those features into the text box. You can then use CSS to access those glyphs in the web fonts. OpenType Flattening This setting replaces the default glyphs in the font with the OpenType features you select if they’re present. If, for example, the font has an alternate ‘a’ that you like better than the default, you can replace the default with that alternate by selecting the appropriate OpenType feature.