[OpenFontLibrary] font linking bandwidth issues

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Op 28 apr 2009, om 21:35 heeft Nicolas Spalinger het volgende  
geschreven:
>
> With a font you have rights to modify I'd recommend trying out using
> http://fonts.philip.html5.org/ for which source code is released under
> MIT/X11.
>
> Notice how it does the subsetting gracefully: it does not strip away
> upstream copyright and licensing notices and handles renaming  
> properly.
>
> HTH


That’s a great tool!

Would be handy if you could not only specify glyphs, but also Unicode  
ranges to subset to, I for example went and subsetted Charis SIL to  
include only Basic-Latin and Latin Extended glyphs, exactly for these  
reasons of bandwidth.

I did that in FontForge, but it would be great if you could do  
something similar hosted, on-the-fly!

Liam pointing out Gzipping is smart as well, I never got around to  
doing that, but definitely should—since downloading the font takes  
half of the download time of my page now (other components *are*  
Gzipped with mod_deflate)

Eric