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Incremental Font Transfer focuses on a new dedicated server-side protocol, PatchRequest, based on the optimal results it demonstrated in the initial research reported in the Progressive Font Enrichment report w3.org/TR/PFE-evaluation/
This is particularly useful for languages where fonts need to cover a very wide range of characters - typically when an ideographic writing system is used (e.g. in Chinese and Japanese) - downloading a multi-mega bytes font for a page makes downloadable fonts unpractical.