Open Font Glyphs for GL Styles
This project packages the most common free fonts with fontnik so you don't have to worry about SDL and gzipped PBFs. The fonts are deployed to https://free.tilehosting.com/ which also supports concatenating fonts.
Configure Mapbox GL Style JSON
Your current Mapbox GL Style JSON configuration for glyphs will look like this.
"glyphs": "mapbox://fonts/openmaptiles/{fontstack}/{range}.pbf",In order to use the fonts without a Mapbox API key edit your Mapbox GL Style JSON and change the endpoint for glyphs to http://fonts.openmaptiles.org/{fontstack}/{range}.pbf.
"glyphs": "http://fonts.openmaptiles.org/{fontstack}/{range}.pbf",Supported Font Families
The following fonts that are available in Mapbox Studio are supported.
- Noto Sans (patched by Klokan Technologies)
- Open Sans
- PT Sans
- Roboto
- Metropolis
Package the Fonts
Install required packages:
npm install
Generate fonts:
node ./generate.js
The PBFs will created be in the _output directory.
Font License
Please mind the license of the original fonts. All fonts are either licensed under OFL or Apache.