Break webfont into smaller subsets

Question

Break webfont into smaller subsets

LC43 opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

Hi,

love the font, but using the .woff2 for regular, bold and italic, is around 97kb.

Is there a chance to release the font in different latin sets, like IBM plex has?
Each of these are around 14-15kb for latin1

thanks

Stephan Seidt · Answer 1 · Fri Dec 15 2017 23:26:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@LC43 I’ve thought about the same. Are you familiar with how IBM Plex’s toolchain creates the subsets and accompanying CSS? If not, we could check that out and use their approach.

Pedro de Carvalho · Answer 2 · Sat Dec 16 2017 00:18:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

hi @ehd , unfortunately, i'm not. I just did a bit of research to see what files IBM used and if they were at this repo.

i did take these notes:
src:
src/unicodes.js
src/families.js
src/weights.js

Script:
/scripts/generate.js calls createFontFace() in /scripts/tools/index.js to generate all the variants.

Oliver Reichenstein · Answer 3 · Wed Oct 24 2018 12:34:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I suggest you fork for this. The exporting routines already added a lot of complexity.