One of the biggest things we could do as a community is normalize local installs of major font libraries (say, top 50 of Google Fonts, for instance). It's relat

One of the biggest things we could do as a community is normalize local installs of major font libraries (say, top 50 of Google Fonts, for instance). It's relatively easy to do, and easy to automate, and could be done with OS or browser updates. The chicken/egg problem though is that we don't want to encourage individual users to install fonts because that becomes a privacy deanonimization vector (existing trackers in the wild will request random Google Fonts and time roughly how long it takes for them to paint in an offscreen canvas) and it really needs to be a OS-wide or browser-wide initiative (like the original web safe fonts initiative that gave us Georgia/Verdana/Comic Sans MS/et al "everywhere"). (Though if an individual wants to do it, Skyfonts is an easy to find app that has a "download the Top X Google Fonts" option that's a quick choose your X and go and can make your browser experience noticeably faster/better without so much bandwidth spent on fonts.)