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Re:Google Fonts Analytics by tobr on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:04PM (#22369468)
The only way to do that would be to include particular typefaces as part of the CSS specification, rather than just the generic font-family keywords like “sans-serif” and “monospaced”. But who should pick them, which ones would they pick, and how would they be licensed?

It’s kind of the same problem as saying that the browser should include common images. Which images? Why? How many?

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Re:Google Fonts Analytics by est31 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:54PM (#22369943)
> It’s kind of the same problem as saying that the browser should include common images. Which images? Why? How many?

Images follow a different usage distribution than fonts. I'd say that the top 100 fonts are enough to render most web content, for images I'd say this is obviously different, the top 100 images might appear often but not as often as the top 100 fonts.

Google is already distributing the equivalent for text, in the form of the brotli corpus which ships in every Chrome installation.

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