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> fonts, compared to, say, corn farming Apples vs oranges. People do not talk enough about fonts. I have a quite tightened build process that I can shrink my
by Ayesh 7y ago
> fonts, compared to, say, corn farming
Apples vs oranges.
People do not talk enough about fonts. I have a quite tightened build process that I can shrink my CSS/JS down to ~50KB pre-gzip, and this easily makes fonts take up the major part of the page size.
There are not enough easily accessible tooling for font optimization such as woff2, variable fonts, rendering optimizations, lazy loading, etc.
- ken 7y agoI would say people talk too much about fonts. I can block all web fonts, and that will not only save 100% of the font download size, but make most pages easier to read. Programmers and designers discovered that fonts were a possible axis of customization, and so they jumped on the idea that it's an axis they must customize, even if it doesn't improve legibility, and significantly worsens performance. Blink/marquee had only one of these problems, and they died out long ago.