A fascinating look at Google Fonts from @stoyan shows the median size for variable (Latin-extended) web font on the service is 34744 bytes.

[zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com]

A fascinating look at Google Fonts from @stoyan shows the median size for variable (Latin-extended) web font on the service is 34744 bytes.

Hefty!

https://www.phpied.com/web-font-file-size-study-a-variable-font-addition/

[r0b@social.lol]

@zachleat @stoyan

I was wondering about this the other month, there was a variable version of a font we were using that was like 1.3Mb, surely that defeats the point!

[zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com]

@r0b @stoyan surely the desktop variant!

[r0b@social.lol]

@zachleat i had to look it up, it was Playfair Display and it had two variable woff2 format (for web?) files. Each 500KB!

The TTF were 1.4MB each

https://github.com/clauseggers/Playfair/releases/tag/2.101

[zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com]

@r0b great multi-language support on that one! (read: subsetting needed )