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Font Checker - Web Font Detector & WOFF2 to OTF

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Font Checker is a free, cross-platform Electron desktop app (with a CLI) that scans a webpage for fonts, follows common CDN and embedded webfont references, and can download and unwrap WOFF2 → OTF with install-friendly name tables.

Useful for designers, developers, and anyone auditing or recovering web fonts from a site.

Features

  • Discover fonts used on any URL
  • Modes: Discover · Download · Convert to OTF
  • Follows linked CSS and embedded webfont references
  • Results list with name-table details and reveal-in-folder
  • Tray icon with show/hide, optional always-on-top, start minimised, updates
  • Window bounds persistence, splash screen, single-instance, auto-updater
  • Close hides to tray (Quit from tray menu)
  • CLI retained for scripts (bun run cli)

Installation

Windows

  1. Download the latest installer from Releases
  2. Run the installer and follow the prompts

macOS

  1. Download the .dmg from Releases and drag Font Checker to Applications
  2. macOS may say the app is “damaged” - that is Gatekeeper blocking an unsigned download, not a bad file. Clear quarantine, then open:
xattr -cr "/Applications/Font Checker.app"
open "/Applications/Font Checker.app"

Or right-click the app → OpenOpen.

Development

bun install
bun run start

CLI

bun run cli https://example.com
bun run cli https://example.com --convert --out ./out
bun run cli https://example.com --json

Building

bun run release

Releasing

Bump the version in package.json and push to master. The GitHub Actions workflow builds Windows and macOS installers, uploads updater metadata, and creates a GitHub Release.

Optional repo secrets for signed builds:

  • WIN_CSC_LINK / WIN_CSC_KEY_PASSWORD (Windows)
  • CSC_LINK / CSC_KEY_PASSWORD plus Apple notarization env vars (macOS Developer ID)

Usage

  1. Paste a page URL
  2. Pick Discover, Download, or Convert to OTF
  3. Optionally set an output folder
  4. Click Scan and inspect results / reveal saved files

Keywords

web font detector, font scraper, woff2 to otf converter, website font finder, Electron font app

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

MIT

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Desktop app and CLI to detect webpage fonts and convert WOFF2 to OTF

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