There is new work under consideration in the good-looking world of Web #fonts w3.org/Fonts/WG/webfonts-201…
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While downloadable fonts are great, for some languages (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean), downloading a complete font with 20K+ glyphs is not a good idea, no matter how good #WOFF compression has become
Replying to @w3cdevs
... WOFF 2.0 significantly improves font compression. It offers 30% average gain over WOFF 1.0, with peaks above 50% in some cases!!
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The proposed work on Progressive Font Enrichment would provide a standardized #JavaScript API to enable to dynamically request font subsets, based on the several existing proprietary approaches to this problem. @svgeesus is driving this work.
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Replying to @w3cdevs
Unicode-range affects the range of characters that will use that font. It does not dynamically subset the font before download - that is the hard part. Even harder is enriching an already downloaded subset. Hence the new work proposal!
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