Google Fonts Plugin

Webpack plugin that downloads fonts from Google Fonts and encodes them to base64.

Supports various font formats, currently eot, ttf, woff and woff2.

Exports to format specific and minified css files, which you can serve to your clients.

Install

npm i -D google-fonts-plugin

Usage

webpack.config.js

const GoogleFontsPlugin = require('google-fonts-plugin').default

module.exports = {
  plugins: {
    new GoogleFontsPlugin({
        /* options */
    })
  }
}

webpack.config.js

const GoogleFontsPlugin = require('google-fonts-plugin').default

module.exports = {
  plugins: {
    new GoogleFontsPlugin('path/to/config.json')
  }
}

Options

Plugin supports configuration in javascript object, json or neon file and also in your package.json.

Name	Type	Default	Description
fonts	Font[]	Roboto	Defines which fonts and it's variants and subsets to download
formats	String[]	eot, ttf, woff, woff2	Specifies which formats to download
outputDir	String	public/fonts	Specifies the output directory
encode	Boolean	true	Whether should encode to base64
minify	Boolean	true	Whether should minify resulting css

Font object

Name	Type	Default	Description
family	String	Roboto	Sets the font family
variants	String[]	400, 400i, 700, 700i	Sets the variants of the font family to download, note that not all fonts have the all the possible variants
subsets	String[]	latin-ext	Sets the subsets, note that not all fonts are available in all subsets

Example configuration

config.json

{
	"google-fonts-plugin": {
		"fonts": [
			{
				"family": "Roboto",
				"variants": [
					"400",
					"400i",
					"700",
					"700i"
				],
				"subsets": [
					"latin-ext"
				]
			}
		],
		"formats": [
			"woff",
			"woff2"
		],
		"outputDir": "public/fonts"
	}
}

config.neon

google-fonts-plugin:
	fonts: 
		- 
			family: Roboto
			variants:
				- 400
				- 400i
				- 700
				- 700i
			subsets:
				- latin-ext
	formats: 
		- woff
		- woff2
	outputDir: public/fonts