aglfn

aglfn

This package provides the Adobe Glyph List For New Fonts parsed as a JSON array.

Installation

npm install --save aglfn

Details

Adobe’s AGLFN text file contains 3 fields for each glyph:

1. a unicode value as four uppercase hexadecimal digits, e.g. 00C1
2. a glyph name, e.g. Aacute
3. a character name, e.g. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE

In the provided JSON file, each glyph is encoded as an object containing unicodeValue, glyphName and charName properties. For example:

{
  "unicodeValue": "0030",
  "glyphName": "zero",
  "charName": "DIGIT ZERO"
}

Usage

const AGLFN = require('aglfn')

AGLFN.find((glyph) => glyph.unicodeValue === '2203')
// => { unicodeValue: '2203',
//      glyphName: 'existential',
//      charName: 'THERE EXISTS' }

AGLFN.filter((glyph) => glyph.charName.includes('TRIANGLE'))
// => [ { unicodeValue: '25BC',
//        glyphName: 'triagdn',
//        charName: 'BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE' },
//      { unicodeValue: '25B2',
//        glyphName: 'triagup',
//        charName: 'BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE' } ]

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