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brew install webfont

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overview

Package summary

Generator of fonts from SVG icons, with TTF encoding and WOFF/WOFF2 decoding

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Commands and aliases

webfont

history

Project history and usage

webfont is a Node.js and CLI tool for generating icon fonts from SVG files and for encoding or decompressing common web font formats.

Project history

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.

Adoption history

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.

How it is used

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.

Why package nerds care

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.

Timeline

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.

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security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for webfont. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.
Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

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Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: package.json#webfont.webfontrc.webfontrc.json.webfontrc.yaml.webfontrc.jswebfont.config.js

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`webfont`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08

manager version12.4.1

manager updated2026-07-07

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://webfont.js.org/

infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://webfont.js.org/none confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:webfont
Version	12.4.1
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/webfont
Homepage	https://webfont.js.org/
Repository	https://github.com/itgalaxy/webfont
Upstream docs	https://webfont.js.org/
License	MIT
Source archive	https://registry.npmjs.org/webfont/-/webfont-12.4.1.tgz
Last updated	2026-07-07T13:17:23Z
Pulse	new
Dependencies	node
Bottle	available (on all)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	webfont
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

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Combined YAML source

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combined/webfont.yml

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cross-ecosystem install command graph
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package relationship graph
package version freshness
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