OpenSans-CSS

OpenSans completely in CSS. No need for woff files or external CDNs. Woff files are b64 encoded inline in the css

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OpenSans completely in CSS. No need for woff files or external CDNs. Woff files are b64 encoded inline in the css

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Dec 22	2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC	2014-12-29 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
Dec 29	2014-12-29 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 5	2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 12	2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-19 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 19	2015-01-19 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-26 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 26	2015-01-26 00:00:00 UTC	2015-02-02 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 2	2015-02-02 00:00:00 UTC	2015-02-09 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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Feb 16	2015-02-16 00:00:00 UTC	2015-02-23 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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Mar 2	2015-03-02 00:00:00 UTC	2015-03-09 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 9	2015-03-09 00:00:00 UTC	2015-03-16 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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steakejjs·Mar 14, 2015

You can already do regular fonts in pure css. See. Here's open sans in pure CSS. https://github.com/steakejjs/OpenSans-CSS I've actually found its much nicer using this in my projects than using a font cdn or self hosting woff files. I do like the minimalism of css rules to creating this font as opposed to having a giant data section. It's pretty neat

In CSS Sans – A pure CSS font

mmastrac·Dec 27, 2014

One thing you might want to consider is just using the same family for each of those versions of the font, rather than using the same name as the font file, per this article: http://www.metaltoad.com/blog/how-use-font-face-avoid-faux-i... Also, I hooked up support for data: URLs so you can use your stylesheet as a source for fonts (if someone was interested in extracting the .woff files back to individual files, for instance): webfont-dl -d "https://github.com/steakejjs/OpenSans-CSS/raw/master/OpenSans.css" \ -o css/font.css --font-out=font --css-rel=../font --woff=link

In Show HN: Download and inline Google web fonts from the command-line

steakejjs·Dec 27, 2014

I got tired of using font CDNs, didn't like extra round trips for the woff files, and I also really liked open-sans, so I made an OpenSans.css which inlines all the OpenSans fonts. It makes my life a little more convenient. https://github.com/steakejjs/OpenSans-CSS/blob/master/OpenSa...

In Show HN: Download and inline Google web fonts from the command-line