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June 3, 2016 11:00 am GMT

Optimizing Web Fonts Made Easy

There’s no doubt that web fonts are an enormous enrichment for web design, and it has become hard to image it without them. After all, web fonts were what ended the uniform typography with Verdana and its contemporaries. As web fonts have to be downloaded, in contrast to system fonts, they are an additional resource that causes additional data traffic. The following tips will help you optimize your web fonts, and make sure that they will load faster. Restricting the Font’s Character Set Well-built fonts can have hundreds of characters. This includes language specific letters such as the German umlaut or the “” and those even more exotic characters of other languages. If you only publish in English on your website, you should focus on the character set that forgoes all letters that are not needed. If you only use a font in capital letters, for headings, for example, you should cross out lower case letters from the character set. This makes the files as small as possible. Especially when it comes to the mobile web, small files are still necessary. Web Font Generator by Fontsquirrel Most web font providers like MyFonts for example, offer a web font generator which […]

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