Re: Our Thoughts on Questions from Last Weeks Agenda

VF is an interesting twist. We've been imagining client would tell browser
about *codepoints* it needs, but (speculating wildly) maybe something about
which axes or parts of axes are needed also makes sense.


On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 8:54 AM Jason Pamental <jason@rwt.io> wrote:

> This is the use case I brought up last week:
>
> Western language websites may not seem like an obvious benefactor of this
> technology, but that may well be due to a bit of a ‘false flag’ scenario.
> Designers and developers have been trained to minimize web font usage,
> generally keeping to 100-200k of font files at most as a ‘best practice’.
> Some media sites will still use a lot more, but when one compares the usual
> 3-5 font files used on a typical website to the 10-15 or more in use in a
> typical print design, it’s clear that design as a practice on the web has
> been massively constrained due to concerns about performance. This solution
> would remove that concern by dramatically decreasing the data download per
> page (especially when combined with variable fonts), sidestepping the
> performance concerns and allowing for better typography (and by extension,
> design and user experience).
>
>
> Jason Pamental
> designer, strategist, tinkerer & typographer
>
> jason@rwt.io
> m: 401.743.4406 <(401)%20743-4406>
> http://rwt.io
>
> Author of ‘Responsive Typography: Using Type Well on the Web’, available
> from O’Reilly: http://bit.ly/rwtbook
>
> On Jan 30, 2019, at 3:50 PM, Garret Rieger <grieger@google.com> wrote:
>
> Me and Rod wrote up our answers to the questions from last weeks agenda
> here
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AQ2VwiVwF77H2h_nuDHR1A5hRyGlpyIQYpYodMtEz1w/edit>.
> It covers a recap of the solutions that Google has explored. Discusses our
> thoughts on what “progressive font enrichment customers” would be looking
> for and finally we capture a proposal for how to measure success. Hopefully
> these will be helpful input into the discussions in tomorrow's call.
>
>
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