[OpenFontLibrary] WordPress & fonts, bundling vs. linking

[vernon adams]

If it’s totally essential and function well, then i would say the extra % is just a fact-of-life. But i would think that bundling a full pan-international font into what is essentially a web-based framework, plus adding and configuring all the extra to make that font function well across devices and browsers, is not really *that* essential or functional. Ironically, a remote web-based font, is a fairly discreet solution for wordpress. Or, they could just lobby the OS vendors to bundle OpenSans into all their OS’s? :o)

-v

On 13 Nov 2013, at 04:00, Manuel Schmalstieg <webdev at ms-studio.net> wrote:

> Vernon, indeed that font is for the WordPress UI that is being "modernized".
> 
> Regarding filesize: a default WordPress install is pretty small, about
> 6.5 mb (compressed). If you include a font with a wide character set,
> x 4 weights, x 4 formats (WOFF, SVG, TTF, EOT), suddenly the font
> takes a significant % of the whole package...