# Install webfont with Homebrew

Generator of fonts from SVG icons, with TTF encoding and WOFF/WOFF2 decoding. Version 12.7.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-28.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:webfont
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install webfont
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:webfont
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 12.7.0
- **Source summary:** Generator of fonts from SVG icons, with TTF encoding and WOFF/WOFF2 decoding
- **Homepage:** <https://webfont.js.org/>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-28T04:08:45Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- webfont (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 12.7.0
## Project history and usage

webfont is a Node.js and CLI tool for generating icon fonts from SVG files and for encoding or decompressing common web font formats.

### Project history

The official repository describes webfont as a monorepo whose published npm package lives under packages/webfont. Its main pipelines cover SVG icon font generation, TTF encoding, and WOFF or WOFF2 decompression.

The package metadata identifies the official Git repository as github.com/itgalaxy/webfont, with a CLI binary and MIT licensing. The current documentation site is webfont.js.org.

### Adoption history

webfont fits into front-end build systems that turn SVG icon sets into browser font assets and optional CSS, SCSS, Stylus, HTML, or JSON templates.

Homebrew packaging added a macOS and Linux CLI install path alongside npm, while the project documentation still recommends npm as the project dependency for library use.

### How it is used

CLI use accepts input files or globs and options for output formats, destination directory, templates, font names, ligatures, unicode ranges, SVG diagnostics, and svgicons2svgfont parameters.

Configuration can be supplied by a package.json webfont property, .webfontrc variants, webfont.config.js, or an explicit --config/configFile path; the API reports the resolved config file path after a run.

### Why package nerds care

webfont matters to package users because it consolidates a common icon-font build pipeline into a single installable command instead of requiring gulp, grunt, or project-specific glue.

It is also a good example of JavaScript package-manager culture crossing into system package managers: an npm build tool exposed as a Homebrew CLI for users who want the binary without wiring a Node project first.

### Timeline

- 2026: Version 12.0.0 removed old Node.js support and expanded font conversion behavior.
- 2026: Version 12.1.0 added TTF input encoding to WOFF and WOFF2, multiple templates per run, and SVG diagnostics-related features.
- 2026: Version 12.4.0 added TTF to SVG font encoding.
- 2026: Homebrew packaged webfont from the npm tarball for macOS and Linux CLI use.

### Related projects

- Related projects named by the official README include webfont-webpack-plugin, svgicons2svgfont, svg2ttf, ttf2eot, ttf2woff, wawoff2, and fontTools.
- The documentation also points users toward a custom Grunt recipe for legacy projects.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/webfont>
- <https://github.com/itgalaxy/webfont#readme>
- <https://github.com/itgalaxy/webfont/blob/master/packages/webfont/CHANGELOG.md>
- <https://webfont.js.org/>
- <https://webfont.js.org/introduction/cli>
- <https://webfont.js.org/introduction/configuration>
- <https://webfont.js.org/introduction/install>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for webfont. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: package.json#webfont, .webfontrc, .webfontrc.json, .webfontrc.yaml, .webfontrc.js, webfont.config.js

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/webfont.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/webfont.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph