I need to use some google fonts on an intranet application. The clients may or may not have internet connection. Reading the license terms, it appears that its legally allowed.
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I used grunt-local-googlefont in a grunt task.
module.exports = function(grunt) {
grunt.initConfig({
pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
"local-googlefont" : {
"opensans" : {
"options" : {
"family" : "Open Sans",
"sizes" : [
300,
400,
600
],
"userAgents" : [
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0)", //download eot
"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.1.2; nl-nl; GT-I9300 Build/JZO54K) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30", //download ttf
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1944.0 Safari/537.36" //download woff and woff2
],
"cssDestination" : "build/fonts/css",
"fontDestination" : "build/fonts",
"styleSheetExtension" : "css",
"fontDestinationCssPrefix" : "fonts"
}
}
}
});
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-local-googlefont');
};
Then, to retrieve them:
grunt local-googlefont:opensans
Note, I'm using a fork from the original, which works better when retrieving fonts with whitespaces in their names.
I wrote a bash script that fetches the CSS file on Google's servers with different user agents, downloads the different font formats to a local directory and writes a CSS file including them. Note that the script needs Bash version 4.x.
See https://neverpanic.de/blog/2014/03/19/downloading-google-web-fonts-for-local-hosting/ for the script (I'm not reproducing it here so I only have to update it in one place when I need to).
Edit: Moved to https://github.com/neverpanic/google-font-download
Great solution is google-webfonts-helper .
It allows you to select more than one font variant, which saves a lot of time.
I have a script written in PHP similar to that of @neverpanic that automatically downloads both the CSS and fonts (both hinted and unhinted) from Google. It then serves the correct CSS and fonts from your own server based on the User Agent. It keeps its own cache, so fonts and CSS of a User Agent will only be downloaded once.
It's in a premature stage, but it can be found here: DaAwesomeP / php-offline-fonts
There is a very simple script, written in plain Java, to download all fonts from a Google Web Font link (multiple fonts supported). It also downloads the CSS file and adapts it to local files. The user-agent can be adapted to get also other files than only WOFF2. See https://github.com/ssc-hrep3/google-font-download
The resulting files can easily be added to a build process (e.g. a webpack build like vue-webpack
).
In addition to k0pernicus I would like to suggest best-served-local. It's also a bash (v4) script to enable webserver operators to download and serve Google web fonts from their own webserver. But in addition to the other bash script, it lets the user fully automate (via cron and such) the serving of up-to-date font files and css-files.
You can download source fonts from https://github.com/google/fonts
After that use font-ranger
tool to split your large Unicode font into multiple subsets (e.g. latin, cyrillic). You should do the following with the tool:
Font-Ranger: https://www.npmjs.com/package/font-ranger
P.S. You can also automate this using Node.js API
You can actually download all font format variants directly from Google and include them in your css to serve from your server. That way you don't have to concern about Google tracking your site's users. However, the downside maybe slowing down your own serving speed. Fonts are quite demanding on resources. I have not done any tests in this issue yet, and wonder if anyone has similar thoughts.
Edit: As luckyrumo pointed out, typefaces is depricated in favour of: https://github.com/fontsource/fontsource
If you're using Webpack, you might be interested in this project: https://github.com/KyleAMathews/typefaces
E.g. say you want to use Roboto font:
npm install typeface-roboto --save
Then just import it in your app's entrypoint (main js file):
import 'typeface-roboto'
There is a tool localfont.com to help you download all font variants. It as well generates the corresponding CSS for implementation. deprecated
localfont is down. Instead, as Damir suggests, you can use google-webfonts-helper
You may follow the script which is developed using PHP.
Where you can download any google fonts by using the script.
It will download the fonts and create a CSS file and archive to zip.
You can download the source code from the GitHub https://github.com/sourav101/google-fonts-downloader
$obj = new GoogleFontsDownloader;
if(isset($_GET['url']) && !empty($_GET['url']))
{
$obj->generate($_GET['url']);
}
if(isset($_GET['download']) && !empty($_GET['download']) && $_GET['download']=='true')
{
$obj->download();
}
/**
* GoogleFontsDownloader
* Easy way to download any google fonts.
* @author Shohrab Hossain
* @version 1.0.0
*/
class GoogleFontsDownloader
{
private $url = '';
private $dir = 'dist/';
private $fontsDir = 'fonts/';
private $cssDir = 'css/';
private $fileName = 'fonts.css';
private $content = '';
private $errors = '';
private $success = '';
public $is_downloadable = false;
public function __construct()
{
ini_set('allow_url_fopen', 'on');
ini_set('allow_url_include', 'on');
}
public function generate($url = null)
{
if (filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) === FALSE)
{
$this->errors .= "<li><strong>Invalid url!</strong> $url</li>";
}
else
{
$this->url = $url;
// delete previous files
$this->_destroy();
// write font.css
$this->_css();
// write fonts
$this->_fonts();
// archive files
$this->_archive();
}
// show all messages
$this->_message();
}
public function download()
{
// Download the created zip file
$zipFileName = trim($this->dir, '/').'.zip';
if (file_exists($zipFileName))
{
header("Content-type: application/zip");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename = $zipFileName");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
readfile("$zipFileName");
// delete file
unlink($zipFileName);
array_map('unlink', glob("$this->dir/*.*"));
rmdir($this->dir);
}
}
private function _archive()
{
if (is_dir($this->dir))
{
$zipFileName = trim($this->dir, '/').'.zip';
$zip = new \ZipArchive();
if ($zip->open($zipFileName, ZipArchive::CREATE) === TRUE)
{
$zip->addGlob($this->dir. "*.*");
$zip->addGlob($this->dir. "*/*.*");
if ($zip->status == ZIPARCHIVE::ER_OK)
{
$this->success .= '<li>Zip create successful!</li>';
$this->is_downloadable = true;
}
else
{
$this->errors .= '<li>Failed to create to zip</li>';
}
}
else
{
$this->errors .= '<li>ZipArchive not found!</li>';
}
$zip->close();
}
else
{
$this->errors .= "<li><strong>File</strong> not exists!</li>";
}
}
private function _css()
{
$filePath = $this->dir.$this->cssDir.$this->fileName;
$content = $this->_request($this->url);
if (!empty($content))
{
if (file_put_contents($filePath, $content))
{
$this->success .= "<li>$this->fileName generated successful!</li>";
$this->content = $content;
}
else
{
$this->errors .= '<li>Permission errro in $this->fileName! Unable to write $filePath.</li>';
}
}
else
{
$this->errors .= '<li>Unable to create fonts.css file!</li>';
}
}
private function _fonts()
{
if (!empty($this->content))
{
preg_match_all('#\bhttps?://[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/))#', $this->content, $match);
$gFontPaths = $match[0];
if (!empty($gFontPaths) && is_array($gFontPaths) && sizeof($gFontPaths)>0)
{
$count = 0;
foreach ($gFontPaths as $url)
{
$name = basename($url);
$filePath = $this->dir.$this->fontsDir.$name;
$this->content = str_replace($url, '../'.$this->fontsDir.$name, $this->content);
$fontContent = $this->_request($url);
if (!empty($fontContent))
{
file_put_contents($filePath, $fontContent);
$count++;
$this->success .= "<li>The font $name downloaded!</li>";
}
else
{
$this->errors .= "<li>Unable to download the font $name!</li>";
}
}
file_put_contents($this->dir.$this->cssDir.$this->fileName, $this->content);
$this->success .= "<li>Total $count font(s) downloaded!</li>";
}
}
}
private function _request($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => FALSE,
CURLOPT_HEADER => FALSE,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => TRUE,
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_REFERER => $url,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if (!empty($result))
{
return $result;
}
return false;
}
private function _destroy()
{
$cssPath = $this->dir.$this->cssDir.$this->fileName;
if (file_exists($cssPath) && is_file($cssPath))
{
unlink($cssPath);
}
else
{
mkdir($this->dir.$this->cssDir, 0777, true);
}
$fontsPath = $this->dir.$this->fontsDir;
if (!is_dir($fontsPath))
{
mkdir($fontsPath, 0777, true);
}
else
{
array_map(function($font) use($fontsPath) {
if (file_exists($fontsPath.$font) && is_file($fontsPath.$font))
{
unlink($fontsPath.$font);
}
}, glob($fontsPath.'*.*'));
}
}
private function _message()
{
if (strlen($this->errors)>0)
{
echo "<div class='alert alert-danger'><ul>$this->errors</ul></div>";
}
if (strlen($this->success)>0)
{
echo "<div class='alert alert-success'><ul>$this->success</ul></div>";
}
}
}
My solution was to download the TTF files from google web fonts and then use onlinefontconverter.com.
If you are using Nuxt, you can use their dedicated module for this purpose: https://github.com/nuxt-community/google-fonts-module For me it works much better than the webfonts helper, which often had problems downloading the fonts during build and generated CSS files without Unicode ranges.
google-webfonts-helper
Red Rose
:Copy CSS
tab
Modern Browser
if you wish to support only modern browsers (woff2, woff)Best Support
if you wish to support all browsers (I chose this - woff2, woff,ttf,svg,eot)../fonts/
path, you can edit it to represent your actual path (for me it was ../assets/fonts/
)red-rose-v1-latin-ext_latin
; unzip it and place all fonts directly into your assets/fonts
directory (based on what you gave earlier)/* red-rose-regular - latin-ext_latin */
@font-face {
font-family: 'Red Rose';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
src: url('../assets/fonts/red-rose-v1-latin-ext_latin-regular.eot'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
src: local('Red Rose Regular'), local('RedRose-Regular'),
url('../assets/fonts/red-rose-v1-latin-ext_latin-regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), /* IE6-IE8 */
url('../assets/fonts/red-rose-v1-latin-ext_latin-regular.woff2') format('woff2'), /* Super Modern Browsers */
url('../assets/fonts/red-rose-v1-latin-ext_latin-regular.woff') format('woff'), /* Modern Browsers */
url('../assets/fonts/red-rose-v1-latin-ext_latin-regular.ttf') format('truetype'), /* Safari, Android, iOS */
url('../assets/fonts/red-rose-v1-latin-ext_latin-regular.svg#RedRose') format('svg'); /* Legacy iOS */
}
/* Red Rose will now be available for use in your stylesheet, provide this font */
:root {
font-family: 'Red Rose', cursive, sans-serif;
}
I made a tiny PHP script to get download links from a Google Fonts CSS import URL like: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,700|Slabo+27px|Lato:400,300italic,900italic
You can use this tool here: http://nikoskip.me/gfonts.php
For instance, if you use the above import URL, you will get this:
It is legally allowed as long as you stick to the terms of the font's license - usually the OFL.
You'll need a set of web font formats, and the Font Squirrel Webfont Generator can produce these.
But the OFL required the fonts be renamed if they are modified, and using the generator means modifying them.
As you want to host all fonts (or some of them) at your own server, you a download fonts from this repo and use it the way you want: https://github.com/praisedpk/Local-Google-Fonts
If you just want to do this to fix the leverage browser caching issue that comes with Google Fonts, you can use alternative fonts CDN, and include fonts as:
<link href="https://pagecdn.io/lib/easyfonts/fonts.css" rel="stylesheet" />
Or a specific font, as:
<link href="https://pagecdn.io/lib/easyfonts/lato.css" rel="stylesheet" />
The contents of the CSS file (from the include URL) depends on what browser I view it from. For example, when browsing to http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans using Chrome, the file only contained WOFF links. Using Internet Explorer (below), it included both EOT and WOFF. I pasted all the links into my browser to download them.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Open Sans';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
src: url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v6/cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3fY6323mHUZFJMgTvxaG2iE.eot);
src: local('Open Sans'), local('OpenSans'), url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v6/cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3fY6323mHUZFJMgTvxaG2iE.eot) format('embedded-opentype'), url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v6/cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3T8E0i7KZn-EPnyo3HZu7kw.woff) format('woff');
}
When you host your own web fonts, you need to correctly link to each font type, deal with legacy browser bugs, etc. When you use Google Web Fonts (hosted by Google), Google automatically links to the correct font types for that browser.
Source: Stackoverflow.com