Firacode: What about publishing as webfont to cdn?

Created on 24 May 2015 · 19Comments · Source: tonsky/FiraCode

It would be great to use the most actual version of this on web sites right from CDN.

What you think about it?

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qfox

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Most helpful comment

Also try to get hosted on https://www.google.com/fonts
I don't think I would use this font for writing code but I would use it for displaying code. So it would be great to have it conveniently loadable in this way.

okonomiyaki3000 on 26 May 2015

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Are there any free ones?

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 11:13 PM Alexej Yaroshevich <
[email protected]> wrote:

It would be great to use the most actual version of this on web sites
right from CDN.

What you think about it?

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tonsky on 24 May 2015

@tonsky Some well-known: https://cdnjs.com/, http://www.jsdelivr.com/, or even github.io (https://pages.github.com/) :smirk_cat:

qfox on 24 May 2015

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okonomiyaki3000 on 26 May 2015

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:+1: This would be great to have on Google Fonts, at the very least.

WorldMaker on 30 Oct 2015

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A link to remember https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

tonsky on 15 Feb 2016

I can add it to jsDelivr for you, including automated updating (since you use releases. I think it would be easiest to have your GitHub folder like this:

/dist
  firacode.css (should be minified)
  /ttf
    (files)
  /woff
    (files)
  /woff2
    (files)

Don't bother with EOT or SVG fonts anymore please. WOFF2 covers over half of browser usage, so that should try to load first.
Also helpful: https://github.com/google/woff2

tomByrer on 15 Feb 2016

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Thanks! I’ll try to get webfonts for next release

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:51 AM Tom Byrer [email protected] wrote:

I can add it to jsDelivr for you, including automated updating (since you
use releases https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/releases. I think it
would be easiest to have your GitHub folder like this:

/dist
firacode.css (should be minified)
/ttf
(files)
/woff
(files)
/woff2
(files)

Don't bother with EOT or SVG fonts anymore please. WOFF2 covers over half
of browser usage http://caniuse.com/#feat=woff2, so that should try to
load first.
Also helpful: https://github.com/google/woff2

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tonsky on 15 Feb 2016

Welcome.
Did more research; seems EOT is needed only if you need to support IE 6-8.. TTF has bad support in IE oddly enough, & really is only needed in some old (2/3? of Android <=4.3). WOFF is supported IE9+ & Android 4.4 (& some 4.x). So you could get away with just WOFF & WOFF2, since IE8 & old Android is unlikely going to be used by programmers anyhow.

(IIRC Some browsers have a bug that tries to d/l all font files, even if not used. That's why Google Fonts sniffs browser agent, & serves a custom CSS. jsDelivr can't sniff; sorry.)

tomByrer on 16 Feb 2016

Meanwhile can we use tools like mentioned https://github.com/google/woff2, and self host converted fonts without breaking the OFL terms?

Jastrzebowski on 27 Mar 2016

rawgit.com looks great :smiley:

Direct URL to latest version:
https://cdn.rawgit.com/tonsky/FiraCode/master/distr/ttf/FiraCode-Regular.ttf

ghost on 8 Nov 2016

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@simon-matt Not a particularly good idea. See the front page:

Use a specific tag or commit hash in the URL (not a branch). Files are cached permanently based on the URL. Query strings are ignored.

Rawgit only makes sense for tagged releases and that would have to be updated manually.

ghost on 24 Jun 2017

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Distribution as npm package would work for me, like in https://github.com/KyleAMathews/typefaces

stereobooster on 26 Dec 2017

It's available on unpkg too (backed by cloudflare): https://unpkg.com/firacode/distr/

eot

otf

ttf

woff

woff2

jesstelford on 18 Apr 2018

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CSS: https://unpkg.com/firacode/distr/fira_code.css

j-f1 on 18 Apr 2018

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Hi, I wonder if there's a plan on adding Fira Code to Google Fonts. Thx!

upd: I noticed google/fonts/issues/1460, sorry for bothering

Ir1d on 2 Oct 2018

Given that rawgit is closing down (https://rawgit.com/), would it be possible to publish the latest version to npm (https://www.npmjs.com/package/firacode), such that the README.md would use unpkg in the sample?