3 ms·
> Base64 will make the fonts about 30% bigger, and webfonts are already too big Does this actually change the transmitted size significantly?
by Schroedingersat 4y ago
> Base64 will make the fonts about 30% bigger, and webfonts are already too big
Does this actually change the transmitted size significantly?
- theandrewbailey 4y agoAfter gzip or brotli, the increased size of base64 is negligible. That 100k CSS is less than 70k compressed.
- SquareWheel 4y agowoff2 is already a highly-compressed format so you shouldn't expect much in terms of savings. Maybe gzip could offset some of the fat added by base64 though. 100KB for a font is a lot of data on a website. I'm using a custom subsetted version of Source Sans Pro at just 6.7KB.