- From: Henri Sivonen via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:00:11 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> What about - for the sake of privacy - getting vendors, aka Mozilla, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Opera, together and just ship a standard set of fonts where every vendor can 'donate' some fonts so they are available cross plattform as well. The disk space footprint of such a set is relatively large: 550 MB unhinted and uncompressed. Unless you can convince Microsoft to adopt an Apple-like font-rendering aesthetic (which would be awesome achievement regardless of privacy), you need the fonts to be hinted in order for them not to look awful on Windows. That kind of data size is problematic for browsers that aren't bundled with the OS. As for browsers that _are_ bundled with the OS, it would be equivalent to getting the OS vendor to accept that kind of disk footprint for the default install, since the OS-bundled browser is part of the default install. If you could get Microsoft and Canonical to install an Mac/Fedora/Android/Chrome OS-like set by default, the font set wouldn't need to be for the Web but could be the OS default font set. (There are so many ways to fingerprint the OS that trying to standardize the set across OSs isn't a particular privacy benefit. However, getting Microsoft and Canonical to install more fonts, even if mutually different, by default would be.) -- GitHub Notification of comment by hsivonen Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4497#issuecomment-565018221 using your GitHub account
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