Sometimes we only need a font for a couple of words, like a logo or slogan. Why do we download the whole font file if we only need a few letters? In this post, I'll show you how you can reduce your font file size by more than 80%. This size reduction...
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For popular fonts this will likely be slower and use more network access.
If they have already visited a site that uses the font you use by putting ?text= on the end you're forcing the browser to go off to Google to get your subset even though the full font file is sitting their in their browsers disk cache.
Lovely. I want to add that you can do the same thing with fonts you have bought somewhere else with a free tool like fontforge. I recommend this to everyone who has a high-traffic landing page. It’s pure money!
Shannon Crabill
Full Stack Software Engineer
I was just picking out custom fonts for a project. I'll try this update next time I'm working on it.