Adding webfont build chain

[bollwyvl]

Great little font! I wanted to try it out in the IPython Notebook.

This proposes a NodeJS-based build chain. Basically, it's npm install && npm run build and you get:

• svg
• eot
• woff
• css
• scss (could easily add others, like less/stylus)
• sample html

I've taken cues from Font-Awesome, etc.

It uses the "gh-pages as submodule" approach, so there's a demo here:
http://bollwyvl.github.io/FiraCode/

The process could be entirely automated on travis-ci, so that any push to master would trigger this build, so you wouldn't even have to have node!

[Zhigalin]

@tonsky Why not?

[IngwiePhoenix]

I totally +1 this. I'd like to use this font to display code on my website. It'd be freaking great to have some generator to help me get the stuff.

[tomByrer]

SVG fonts have been cut out of most browers. Should drop IE-only EOT in favor of WOFF; IE <= 10 have been EOL & usage is too small anyhow. Should add WOFF2 since it is supported by over half browsers & compresses better.

IF you want to do some hardcore code reduction:
https://github.com/googlefonts/fontcrunch
https://github.com/google/woff2
For some reason I thought this compressed with zopfli, but I guess not: https://github.com/googlefonts/fontbakery