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Finding out what characters a given font supports

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Here is a method using the fontTools Python library (which you can install with something like pip install fonttools): #!/usr/bin/env python from itertools import chain import sys from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont from fontTools.unicode import Unicode with TTFont( sys.argv[1], 0, allowVID=0, ignoreDecompileErrors=True, fontNumber=-1 ) as ttf: chars = chain.from_iterable( [y + (Unicode[y[0]],) for y in x.cmap.items()] … Read more

Proper MIME type for OTF fonts

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There are a number of font formats that one can set MIME types for, on both Apache and IIS servers. I’ve traditionally had luck with the following: svg as “image/svg+xml” (W3C: August 2011) ttf as “application/x-font-ttf” (IANA: March 2013) or “application/x-font-truetype” otf as “application/x-font-opentype” (IANA: March 2013) woff as “application/font-woff” (IANA: January 2013) woff2 as … Read more

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