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!

Web font file size study: a variable font addition

TL;DR: If your variable font file is significantly larger than 35K you may ask yourself "How did I get here?" Two font files (of the same family) means more bytes than one variable font that does both For context see part 1 and part 2. After publishing part 2 of my ongoing web fonts file size

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[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

Release Version 2.101 Release · clauseggers/Playfair

Playfair is a general purpose Open Source typeface family - Release Version 2.101 Release · clauseggers/Playfair

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[zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com]

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