Re: Size increase for streamable font pre-processing

On the other thread about font sizes I posted a spreadsheet that has info
on the size of fonts after processing by the optimizer:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KJvxQxeBtGNYmcSPFT4CAFEQU2hDBN2XwFIyqf8_ISY/edit?usp=sharing

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 10:56 AM Garret Rieger <grieger@google.com> wrote:

> I can gather data on how much the TTF/OTF's increase in size as a result
> of the processing.
>
> For the simulation I did two separate runs:
>
>    - The first was with unprocessed fonts, simulating everything but
>    range request.
>    - The second was with processed fonts (via Myle's tool), simulating
>    only range request.
>
> Re: hinting that's correct, the optimizer tool currently drops hints. So
> to make things fair I also dropped hints from the fonts used in simulating
> all of the non-range request methods.
>
> The data set zip I sent out contains two copies of the font library
> "fonts" (hints dropped) and "fonts.optimized" (hints dropped and run
> through the optimizer tool). These are the exact fonts I used in the
> simulation runs.
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 9:34 AM Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote:
>
>> For fonts processed by the Streamable Fonts tool
>> https://github.com/litherum/StreamableFonts
>>
>> is there data on how much larger they get as a result of
>> desubroutinisation and other processing?
>>
>> Ideally a range with percentiles, rather than just an average.
>>
>> It isn't clear to me (sorry) if, in the simulation, the fonts were first
>> processed this way and then served by the two approaches (so they
>> started from the same baseline) or whether this was only applied to the
>> fonts served with Glyph Byterange, and the ones served with Patch and
>> Subset were the original fonts (thus, a bt smaller to begin with).
>>
>> Also, I recall reading that the fonts served had hinting removed, is
>> that true? I can't find where I read it now, sorry.
>>
>> --
>> Chris Lilley
>> @svgeesus
>> Technical Director @ W3C
>> W3C Strategy Team, Core Web Design
>> W3C Architecture & Technology Team, Core Web & Media
>>
>>
>>