Fonts

Web Open Font Format 2

RetroTxt relies on Truetype or OpenType web fonts in the WOFF2¹ format. This offers the best compression to reduce the overall download and memory-use size of RetroTxt.

The WOFF2¹ format is relatively new, and most font distributions do not offer it. To add these fonts into RetroTxt, older formats must first go through a conversion.

WebAssembly TTF to WOFF2

Convert a Truetype font into WOFF2

cd RetroTxt
pnpm run font fontname.ttf fontname.woff2

Tip for Windows

Windows users may need to update the font script in the package.json file.

OriginalEdit

"scripts": {
  "font": "woff2_compress.js"
},

"scripts": {
  "font": "woff2_compress.js.cmd"
},

Font tools

Online generators

• Font Squirrel Webfont Generator
• transfonter Webfont generator

Online metadata

• FontDrop!

Universal font conversion

• TransType

WOFF2 font conversion

• google/woff2

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1. Web Open Font Format 2.0 ↩↩