API Reference Index

This documentation for fontkit is created and provided by the Typogram team. It’s a third-party documentation intended to delve deeper into the fontkit API. For the most accurate information, refer to fontkit’s official documentation.

Fontkit Object

Fontkit Object

• fontkit.openSync(filePath, postscriptName) Opens a font file synchronously and returns a font object.

• fontkit.open(filePath, postscriptName, callback) Opens a font file asynchronously.

• fontkit.create(buffer, postscriptName) Creates a new font object from a buffer.

Font Object

Font Object

• font.layout(string) Layouts the given string with the font and returns a GlyphRun object.

• font.glyphForCodePoint(codePoint) Gets a glyph for a given Unicode code point.

• font.hasGlyphForCodePoint(codePoint) Checks if the font has a glyph for the given code point.

• font.characterSet Returns the set of Unicode code points supported by the font.

• font.availableFeatures Returns the list of OpenType feature tags available in the font.

GlyphRun Object

GlyphRun Object

• glyphRun.glyphs An array of Glyph objects in the run.

• glyphRun.positions An array of position objects for each glyph.

Glyph Object

Glyph Object

• glyph.path Returns a Path object representing the glyph’s outline.

• glyph.bbox Gets the glyph’s bounding box, i.e., the rectangle that encloses the glyph’s outline.

• glyph.cbox Gets the glyph’s control bounding box.

• glyph.advanceWidth The advance width of the glyph.

Path Object

Path Object

• path.moveTo(x, y) Moves the pen to a new location.

• path.lineTo(x, y) Draws a straight line to a new location.

• path.bezierCurveTo(cp1x, cp1y, cp2x, cp2y, x, y) Draws a cubic bezier curve.

• path.quadraticCurveTo(cpx, cpy, x, y) Draws a quadratic bezier curve.

• path.closePath() Closes the current path.

• path.bbox Returns the bounding box of the path.

Subset Object

Subset Object

• subset.includeGlyph(glyph) Includes the given glyph in the subset.

• subset.encode() Encodes the subset font.