[OpenFontLibrary] Font subsets

James Weiner james at unicorncreative.com
Thu Jul 2 05:17:41 PDT 2009


Thanks - in the end I just found a char set but I'm going to try out  
FontForge too

Cheers, James

On 2 Jul 2009, at 12:55, Dave Crossland wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Open in fontforge, encoding menu, reencode, latin 1, generate font. :)
>
> Regards, Dave
>
>
> On 2 Jul 2009, 12:53 PM, "James Weiner" <james at unicorncreative.com>  
> wrote:
>
> Hi people,
>
> I was wondering if anyone had a suggestion for where I can get hold  
> of a suggestion for a 'minimum useful' character set?
>
> I am optimising some typefaces for @font-face use (they are  
> currently ~350Kb) and I would prefer them to way in around 50-75Kb  
> at most, but I also want them to be actually useful.
>
> For now the site the subsetted fonts are for is only in English,  
> although it may be internationalised in the coming years.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> Cheers, James
>
> --
> James Weiner
> +44 7713 005 056
> Unicorn Creative | http://unicorncreative.com
>
>


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James Weiner
+44 7713 005 056
Unicorn Creative | http://unicorncreative.com

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