Re:Roboto but Make It Flex
by SonOfLilit on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:10AM
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Google Fonts compiles specific given sizes and weights into a simpler and smaller file, I think.
It would maybe be harder to give values to some variables while keeping others, but I don't think it should be and anyway just instantiating all variables solves most use cases. It's like SVGs except smaller (binary format) and in a format that text rendering systems know how to work with.
Oh wow- the thread shares a new spec that does exactly this. Incremental Font Transfer[0] which “…allows clients to load only the portions of the font they actually need which speeds up font loads and reduces data transfer needed to load the fonts.”
But it's 1.7 MB
Is there no way to reduce that?
It would be great if you could "compile" a pre-defined combinations of Axes values to only bundle what's needed for a design. I suppose flattening to SVG could help provided the text had captions for screen readers?