Multiple Unicode-Range Export (Webfont)

Albert Creus · August 2024

Hi, I'm considering splitting a CJK font in more digestible bite-sizes for webfont purposes in a similar way Noto does, using unicode-range feature.
For reference, here is an example of Noto Sans JP split in 120 woff2 of about 60kb each.
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Noto+Sans+JP:wght@100..900&family=swap

What's the best way to export the font like this?

John Hudson · August 2024

Not addressing your immediate question, but this is a technology you might want to keep an eye on: Incremental Font Transfer.

Denis Moyogo Jacquerye · August 2024

If you're comfortable with the command line, you can use a tool like fonttools pyftsubset. See https://fonttools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/subset/index.html

Harfbuzz also has a command line tool that does the same and is faster.

Albert Creus · August 2024

John Hudson said:

Not addressing your immediate question, but this is a technology you might want to keep an eye on: Incremental Font Transfer.

This is amazing news for all the CJK culture, it doesn't seem to require much time to be standarized, hope the production of the files is streamlined. Will follow it for sure, thanks!

Albert Creus · August 2024

Denis Moyogo Jacquerye said:

Type your commentIf you're comfortable with the command line, you can use a tool like fonttools pyftsubset. See https://fonttools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/subset/index.html
Harfbuzz also has a command line tool that does the same and is faster.

I guess this is the only way, I'll have to give it a go, thanks!

Multiple Unicode-Range Export (Webfont)

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