Robin Whittleton on Nostr: It’s slightly disappointing that a variable Noto Sans (with just a weight axis) cut ...
It’s slightly disappointing that a variable Noto Sans (with just a weight axis) cut down to what we use on IKEA.com is 38KB, while individual bold and regular non-variable files are 21KB in total.
I guess I’d hoped that there’d be a weight saving for a single variable font over multiple static ones. But maybe that was naïve?
#VariableFont
Published at
2024-01-02 13:25:38Event JSON
{
"id": "4735fc530fa755f96476afec0ef95f8317f2808c9db22e4da5dc55fda698882c",
"pubkey": "c1fc9c6615855f28e64ccf7cda8f2d4ecfb38ebbf47853ff360f3f17e8641330",
"created_at": 1704201938,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"t",
"VariableFont"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://front-end.social/users/robinwhittleton/statuses/111686578242773868",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "It’s slightly disappointing that a variable Noto Sans (with just a weight axis) cut down to what we use on IKEA.com is 38KB, while individual bold and regular non-variable files are 21KB in total.\n\nI guess I’d hoped that there’d be a weight saving for a single variable font over multiple static ones. But maybe that was naïve?\n\n#VariableFont",
"sig": "44f3d0816923517f5d2cebe50fcbb9c8c0e9914de6f23d6e16e5542f5d3e3a2aefef8a6d4b8d197f9511e472ab0994061fb9ae76ef7c2f8003204f1f03a1aad7"
}
