Create a subset of font file in CLI

I introduce how to create font file subset in command line.

Prerequisite

This time, I used NodeJS and Python. (NodeJS seems to use Python libraries so I think we can do the same thing only with Python.)

Get the character codes in hexadecimal number format.

hex(ord('0'))  # => '0x30'
hex(ord('9'))  # => '0x39'

'0'.ord.to_s(16)  # => "30"
'9'.ord.to_s(16)  # => "39"

$ pip install fonttools brotli

$ npm install -g glyphhanger

$ glyphhanger --whitelist="U+30-39" --subset something.ttf --formats=woff2

--whitelist indicates the characters to be in the subset, which are designated in the format U+XX. Here, woff2 format file will be created.

As a result, something-subset.woff2 was created.

--formats can receive multiple formats, as --formats=woff,woff2.