[OpenFontLibrary] Font subsets

[James Weiner]

Thanks for your help both Nicolas's!

James

On 3 Jul 2009, at 09:04, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:

> James Weiner 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.
>
> You're right: optimisation is a tradeoff: one man's bloat is another
> man's absolute survival minimum :-)
>
> As Nicolas M. has indicated the MES-x subsets are probably a good  
> start.
>
> Also please take into account any reserved font names requirements  
> when
> doing the subsetting.
>
>
>> Cheers, James
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- 
> Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer
> Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary
> http://planet.open-fonts.org
>
>


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