Re: Telcon minutes, fro Wed., April 10

Fantastic, thank you Vlad!  The results are truly impressive.

Looking forward to seeing the WOFF 2.0 compression improvement results
across more font collections (for which I reached out to Adobe/Typekit,
Font Squirrel, and the Open Font Library).  Stay tuned!


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Levantovsky, Vladimir <
Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com> wrote:

>  Hello WG,****
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> I’ve got some results to report on WOFF 2.0 compression gains collected
> over the whole collection of Monotype webfonts library (with roughly 33,400
> TTF fonts being served currently). Here is what we see in the results:
> Average compression gain (over GZIP): 25.04%****
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> Median compression gain (over GZIP): 22.52%****
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> Standard deviation in compression gains across the entire library: 9.17%**
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> Max / Min gains: 94.51% / 1.12% (with six fonts out of 33,400 being
> considered outliers producing low single digits negative gains).****
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> Overall, the results are very impressive, considering the number of fonts
> that produce spectacular results in 70%-90% gain range (which is the reason
> for average gains being pushed about 2.5% higher than median).****
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> Thank you,****
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> Vlad****
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> *From:* Levantovsky, Vladimir [mailto:Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 10, 2013 4:33 PM
> *To:* public-webfonts-wg@w3.org
> *Subject:* Telcon minutes, fro Wed., April 10****
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> Online at http://www.w3.org/2013/04/10-webfonts-minutes.html****
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> and also as plain text below:
>                                - DRAFT -****
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>                  WebFonts Working Group Teleconference****
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> 10 Apr 2013****
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>    See also: [2]IRC log****
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>       [2] http://www.w3.org/2013/04/10-webfonts-irc****
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> Attendees****
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>    Present****
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>           +1.650.214.aaaa, +1.781.970.aabb, [Microsoft],****
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>           +44.184.426.aacc, jfkthame, +1.250.668.aadd****
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>    Regrets****
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>    Chair****
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>           SV_MEETING_CHAIR****
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>    Scribe****
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>           Vlad****
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> Contents****
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>      * [3]Topics****
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>      * [4]Summary of Action Items****
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>      __________________________________________________________****
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>    <trackbot> Date: 10 April 2013****
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>    sergey, are you calling in?****
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>    discussion points: all members to review the reference code****
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>    implementation, attempt to produce statistics over a larger****
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>    corpus of fonts****
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>    Next call goals: to review the results and compression gain****
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>    ratios****
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>    font libraries to cover: Monotype web fonts, Adobe/Typekit,****
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>    OFL,****
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>    JH: would like to see comparison of both TTF and CFF fonts,****
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>    preferably the same typefaces****
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> Summary of Action Items****
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>    [End of minutes]****
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