The aim of this repo is to create a small JavaScript thing that can turn outline data for "a letter" into a tiny OpenType font using CFF for the glyph model (because CFF does Type2 charstrings, which model curves with cubic beziers, unlike TFF, which can only do quadratic beziers. Which are properly nonsense for design work).

The idea is to supply the builder function with a structure similar to an SVG (compound) path, and get a BASE64-encoded OTF back for use in an @font-face src property. Define outline, load in, apply to single letter.

The code can be built with node r.js -o build (windows users will probably need to do something stupid like node c:\Users\YourNameHere\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\requirejs\bin\r.js -o build.js because r.js was not packaged as nicely as npm or browserify)

Why is this useful? What a silly question.

• Pomax

live version: http://pomax.github.io/CFF-glyphlet-fonts

PS: this code is public domain, except in jurisdictions that do not recognise the concept of a public domain. For these jurisdictions, the license is an "MIT with the overruling stipulation that the code is still public domain outside your judicial borders".