Missing Google font subsets

[quanglam2807]

typefaces-* packages only support Latin while Google fonts support many different subsets. The project relies on https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/api/fonts/ which only downloads Latin fonts by default.

Yes, please add support for latin-ext or other character sets!

[KyleAMathews]

PRs welcome! Won't have time to work on this anytime soon.

[mvasilkov]

Latin only :(

I wish it was mentioned in the README of corresponding npm packages, since they look genuinely useful (I discovered this project using the npm package search). Then again, doing a pull request stating "This here npm package is for use in 1985 and earlier, when everything was set in One True Americanski Language" in every README is kinda passive-aggressive.

What an unfortunate turn of events. I hope you resume the development of this project eventually, since there is clearly a demand for it.

[erykpiast]

Hey, I can see stagnation here, maybe some brainstorm is needed?

What about adding additional entrypoints like typeface-thefont/latin-ext, typeface-thefont/cyrillic etc.? The default would be /latin so it's fully backward compatible solution. Sounds quite easy to use as well as to implement I think. I'd like to contribute if you like the idea, @KyleAMathews ?

[KyleAMathews]

@erykpiast Adding additional entry points has been my main idea as well.

@mvasilkov happy to take a PR adding a less passive-aggressive notice that the packages are latin only.

[erykpiast]

@KyleAMathews To be honest I cannot find any other idea, this one seems straightforward. Shall we go on with this?

[alexghi]

Yes please, we need Latin Extended and the Cyrillic and/or Cyrillic Extended

[erykpiast]

Guys, I've made PR for this: #45. It's very dirty but works. I guess it'd be nice to have some tests, I didn't write any though, as there was no infrastructure prepared for this so far and I didn't want to make it too big.

[koutsenko]

Hello all.
Can i use cyrillic subset of typeface-roboto now?

[adipascu]

CSS unicode-range could be used to optimize download size.

[xuhcc]

There is a fork of typefaces project which supports different character sets: https://github.com/bedlaj/openfonts

@koutsenko You can use @openfonts/roboto_cyrillic or @openfonts/roboto_all packages as a substitutes to typeface-roboto.