Ability to pick any font

[espadrine]

Especially OpenSans.

Idea: use SVG <path> to draw each glyph, extracting information from a big JSON structure corresponding to a font.

This issue is the new forum of discussion for font creation; it is a follow-up to badges/gh-badges#14.

[chadwhitacre]

FTR, the <path> idea surfaced on #97.

[espadrine]

This is the best solution I found. We are already using node-canvas; writing the typeset text and extracting the SVG path element will be a breeze.

A write-up here.

[paulmelnikow]

Rendering paths into the svg's is something I could see doing in the future. Also, I could see embedding the entire font width as a lookup table, as badgen has done. However Verdana seems to be the standard, and I don't see the need to support additional fonts on our server.