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# subset-font

Create a subset font from an existing font in SFNT (TrueType/OpenType), WOFF, or WOFF2 format. Uses [`harfbuzzjs`](https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzzjs), which is a WebAssembly build of [HarfBuzz](https://harfbuzz.github.io/).
Create a subset font from an existing font in SFNT (TrueType/OpenType), WOFF, or WOFF2 format. When subsetting a variable font, you can also reduce the variation space at the individual axis level.

These operations are implemented using [`harfbuzzjs`](https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzzjs), which is a WebAssembly build of [HarfBuzz](https://harfbuzz.github.io/).

## Basic example

```js
const subsetFont = require('subset-font');

const mySfntFontBuffer = Buffer.from(/*...*/);

// Create a new font with only the characters required to render "Hello, world!" in WOFF2 format:
const subsetBuffer = await subsetFont(mySfntFontBuffer, 'Hello, world!', {
targetFormat: 'woff2',
});
```

## Reducing the variation space

```js
const subsetFont = require('subset-font');
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// Create a new font with only the characters required to render "Hello, world!" in WOFF2 format:
const subsetBuffer = await subsetFont(mySfntFontBuffer, 'Hello, world!', {
targetFormat: 'woff2',
variationAxes: {
// Pin the axis to 200:
wght: 200,
// Reduce the variation space, explicitly setting a new default value:
GRAD: { min: -50, max: 50, default: 25 },
// Reduce the variation space. A new default value will be inferred by clamping the old default to the new range:
slnt: { min: -9, max: 0 },
// The remaining axes will be kept as-is
},
});
```

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- `targetFormat` - the format to output, can be either `'sfnt'`, `'woff'`, or `'woff2'`.
- `preserveNameIds` - an array of numbers specifying the extra name ids to preserve in the `name` table. By default the harfbuzz subsetter drops most of these. Use case described [here](https://github.com/papandreou/subset-font/issues/7).
- `variationAxes` - an object specifying a full or partial instancing of variation axes in the font. Only works with variable fonts. See the example above.

For backwards compatibility reasons, `'truetype'` is supported as an alias for `'sfnt'`.

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