font-showcase/README.md

Showcase for ebook-fonts

This repository is just to make the source code available. You can visit the interactive showcase here: ebook-fonts.nicoverbruggen.be.

A website to showcase my font collection. Browse and preview fonts with adjustable size, line height, dark mode, and bezel color.

Project structure

public/          Web root (served to browsers)
  assets/        CSS, JS, SVGs, favicons
src/             PHP includes (not web-accessible)
  load_fonts.php Scans the font repo and builds the font list

Local development

./serve-locally.sh

Starts a PHP dev server on http://localhost:8888. Set PORT to use a different port.

Deployment

Fonts are cloned from ebook-fonts during the build phase (see nixpacks.toml).

OG image

The Open Graph image (public/assets/favicon/og-image.png) is a 1200x630 PNG screenshot. To regenerate it from a source image:

magick screenshot.png -strip -resize 1200x630 public/assets/favicon/og-image.png
pngquant --quality=65-80 --strip --force --output public/assets/favicon/og-image.png public/assets/favicon/og-image.png

Requires imagemagick and pngquant (brew install pngquant).