Gofont

A simple google font downloader written in Golang

About this project

This project contains my very first lines of golang. I created this project mainly because I want to try out Go (I really hate it so far).

What does it do?

Just feed it an url to google font api and it will download that font to your desired location!

Example of a google font api url

https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Charm|Dancing+Script

Example 1: Download fonts from google to a directory

Syntax:

$ gofont "<google_font_link>" "<location_for_downloaded_font>"

Example:

$ gofont "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Charm|Dancing+Script" "fonts"

Example 2: Download fonts from google and generate a css file for that font

Syntax:

$ gofont --cssFile="<location_for_css>" "<google_font_link>" "<location_for_downloaded_font>"

Example:

$ gofont --cssFile="./styles/fonts.css" "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Charm|Dancing+Script" "fonts"

Todo

I'm still trying out Go so maybe I'll add some more features such as:

• Generate a CSS file pointing to the location of the downloaded font
• Make logger more colorful by printing the details with color
• Cry a lot because I don't understand how Go import works
• Search for fonts on google fonts

License

• MIT