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Reducing font glyphs to create webfonts with only latin characters?


How can I take a font file and remove all glyphs that are not standard latin characters (A-Z, 0-9, special characters, etc)?

For example I downloaded the FreeSans font from GNU FreeFont, but it contains thousands of characters from all languages. I want to strip all that extra filesize in order to convert it to a webfont.


Solution

  • The webfont generator of Fontsquirrel has a feature to subset a font, assuming you have the rights to upload and manipulate said font. Look under Expert options, then at Subsetting and pick accordingly.