webfont mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• webfont

Projektgeschichte

The official repository describes webfont as a monorepo whose published npm package lives under packages/webfont. Its main pipelines cover SVG icon font generation, TTF encoding, and WOFF or WOFF2 decompression.

The package metadata identifies the official Git repository as github.com/itgalaxy/webfont, with a CLI binary and MIT licensing. The current documentation site is webfont.js.org.

Adoptionsgeschichte

webfont fits into front-end build systems that turn SVG icon sets into browser font assets and optional CSS, SCSS, Stylus, HTML, or JSON templates.

Homebrew packaging added a macOS and Linux CLI install path alongside npm, while the project documentation still recommends npm as the project dependency for library use.

Wie es verwendet wird

CLI use accepts input files or globs and options for output formats, destination directory, templates, font names, ligatures, unicode ranges, SVG diagnostics, and svgicons2svgfont parameters.

Configuration can be supplied by a package.json webfont property, .webfontrc variants, webfont.config.js, or an explicit --config/configFile path; the API reports the resolved config file path after a run.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

webfont matters to package users because it consolidates a common icon-font build pipeline into a single installable command instead of requiring gulp, grunt, or project-specific glue.

It is also a good example of JavaScript package-manager culture crossing into system package managers: an npm build tool exposed as a Homebrew CLI for users who want the binary without wiring a Node project first.

Zeitleiste

• 2026: Version 12.0.0 removed old Node.js support and expanded font conversion behavior.
• 2026: Version 12.1.0 added TTF input encoding to WOFF and WOFF2, multiple templates per run, and SVG diagnostics-related features.
• 2026: Version 12.4.0 added TTF to SVG font encoding.
• 2026: Homebrew packaged webfont from the npm tarball for macOS and Linux CLI use.

Related projects

• Related projects named by the official README include webfont-webpack-plugin, svgicons2svgfont, svg2ttf, ttf2eot, ttf2woff, wawoff2, and fontTools.
• The documentation also points users toward a custom Grunt recipe for legacy projects.

Quellen

• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/webfont
• https://github.com/itgalaxy/webfont#readme
• https://github.com/itgalaxy/webfont/blob/master/packages/webfont/CHANGELOG.md
• https://webfont.js.org/
• https://webfont.js.org/introduction/cli
• https://webfont.js.org/introduction/configuration
• https://webfont.js.org/introduction/install