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I'm surprised that browser vendors aren't including the more popular fonts.

• acdha 10y ago
  It'd be something else to manage updates for and the base OS support is pretty good on modern releases. These days, the gaps I see are for fairly obscure languages and since webfonts solve that problem and can do conditional downloads, I doubt it's worth the trouble.
• glandium 10y ago
  A font that supports all Unicode is larger than a browser installer.
  • saghm 10y ago
    And even worse, you have to download the font every time you load a different page using it, whereas you only have to download the browser once
  • colejohnson66 10y ago
    Citation? All the DejaVu fonts total about 5 megabytes[0] and they have pretty impressive coverage[1]. What are they missing? [0]: http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Download http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Download [1]: http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/PDF_samples http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/PDF_samples
    • glandium 10y ago
      DejaVu fonts are far from covering Unicode. They don't have any Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters, for a starter.