Node.js - Get font properties description

Question

Is it possible to access the Description part of a font properties, as shown when you right-click on the file?

Here, I'm interested in the Title attribute, for example.

I've used the get-file-properties package as described in Node JS - read file properties, but it doesn't seem to have access to it (it's using wmic behind the scenes, which doesn't return it either). For example, Title doesn't exist, and Description returns C:\\Windows\\Fonts\\Alegreya-Bold.ttf

Is there another way to access this information?

Thanks

@RobinMackenzie thanks! Want to add your comment as an answer and I'll accept it? — divillysausages, Apr 26 '21 at 16:02

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 26 '21 at 16:01

As @RobinMackenzie mentionned, there's the ttfinfo package (https://github.com/trevordixon/ttfinfo), which will give you the info on a specific font in this form:

{
  tables: {
    name: {
      '0': 'Copyright 2011 The Alegreya Project Authors (https://github.com/huertatipografica/Alegreya)',
      '1': 'Alegreya',
      '2': 'Bold',
      '3': '2.003;HT  ;Alegreya-Bold',
      '4': 'Alegreya Bold',
      '5': 'Version 2.003; ttfautohint (v1.6)',
      '6': 'Alegreya-Bold',
      '8': 'Huerta Tipografica',
      '9': 'Juan Pablo del Peral',
      '11': 'http://www.huertatipografica.com',
      '12': 'http://www.huertatipografica.com',
      '13': 'This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL',
      '14': 'http://scripts.sil.org/OFL',
      '256': 'Roman numerals',
      '257': 'Arrows, triangles and circles',
      '258': 'Foundry icon',
      '259': 'Dynamic arrows and triangles'
    },
    post: {
      format: 2,
      italicAngle: 0,
      underlinePosition: 0,
      underlineThickness: 0,
      minMemType42: 16734720,
      maxMemType42: 1509968640,
      minMemType1: 1258291200,
      maxMemType1: 0
    },
    'OS/2': { version: 4, weightClass: 700 }
  }
}

A full list of the names (0, 1, 2,...) can be found here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/name#name-ids

There's also node-system-fonts (https://github.com/jgilsaa/node-system-fonts), which requires a build step as it's a C++ module, but on the plus side, gives you a lot of the same info, for every installed font:

[
  {
    path: 'C:\\WINDOWS\\FONTS\\ARIAL.TTF',  
    postscriptName: 'ArialMT',
    family: 'Arial',
    style: 'Regular',
    weight: 400,
    width: 5,
    italic: false,
    monospace: false
  },
  {
    path: 'C:\\WINDOWS\\FONTS\\ARIALN.TTF', 
    postscriptName: 'ArialNarrow',
    family: 'Arial Narrow',
    style: 'Regular',
    weight: 400,
    width: 3,
    italic: false,
    monospace: false
  },
  {
    path: 'C:\\WINDOWS\\FONTS\\ARIALI.TTF', 
    postscriptName: 'Arial-ItalicMT',       
    family: 'Arial',
    style: 'Italic',
    weight: 400,
    width: 5,
    italic: true,
    monospace: false
  },
  ...
]

Node.js - Get font properties description

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