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Fonts 2020 #902
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If @RoelN has bandwidth he would be an excellent author here |
@mandymichael and @jpamental do great things in the variable fonts space and would love to have either (or both) of them contribute if interested. |
I'd be happy to work on this in a review or even author capacity, depending on the need. There's a lot of talent already teed up for this space, but let me know if I can help. |
Thanks very much for considering me! 💖 I'd love to, but I'd also be happy to give up (or share) my seat if this means a more diverse mix of authors. :-) |
@mandymichael @notwaldorf would either of you have any interest in authoring this chapter? |
@malchata @RoelN @jpamental thanks for your consideration. I'll put you all down as reviewers for now and we can change it to authors as needed. |
I haven't authored anything in a while, so I would love to do a co-authoring adventure (or, if someone tells me specifically what to write about, i can try that too). I wouldn't want to take anything about variable fonts away from @mandymichael though :) |
Great, thanks @notwaldorf! I've added you as an author for this chapter. Can I also put you down as the content team lead? You'd be the point person for keeping the chapter on schedule. You're also free to add people as coauthors as needed. A few resources to get you started:
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Ooooh that sounds like a lot of responsibility and self-organization that I'm not really sure I can be successful at (I proposed a co-authoring adventure with structure and unless I copy paste last year's, it feels like a solo-authoring adventure and chaos 😅 ) |
No worries! It's great to have you on board in a coauthor capacity. 📟 @malchata @RoelN @jpamental @mandymichael would any of you like to step into the content lead role and coauthor with Monica? |
Hi @LeaVerou. You should be able to study variable fonts. There was a section on it in the 2019 Fonts chapter, so there are some existing queries we can work with. https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2019/fonts#variable-fonts-are-the-future Example queries: |
This is so exciting :-) @LeaVerou I think there will be some overlap between CSS and Fonts if you look at the typography side of fonts (as opposed to tech/performance), but I think that'd eventually might feel better at home in the Fonts chapter. Because it'll be a mix of what the browser automatically does, based on the font, and what the CSS authors enable/disable on top of that. For instance, you could take a look at how many OpenType features are present in fonts (this query implies we can look into that, I hope!), and which ones will be enabled by browser by default, and which ones are actively turned on in CSS. Not sure this is the place, but here's some initial notes I took, maybe this helps with brainstorming:
Edit: I'd be more than happy in a role as reviewer or what-to-write-about-helperouter. |
Then, since it's looking like this might be of interest to the CSS folks, i'm 100% ok with bailing and/or just reviewing, and giving my spot to @svgeesus! |
I'd love to be part of the team (content lead if that's needed), ideally co-authoring with you @notwaldorf and maybe @mandymichael ? I think with input from @LeaVerou and @svgeesus it would be a really well-rounded group including perspectives from fonts, design, development, and CSS. It would be wonderful to work with you and Mandy. |
Thank you David, that's great news for me ❤️
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Hello, Jason, Dave, @jpamental @davelab6 |
The result that fonts.gstatic.com is the most popular font host in China should be checked, because many Google sites are blocked in China. Although gstatic does not appear on List of websites blocked in mainland China. The reason is important, because "WebFonts are rarely used in China because the main free font website is unavailable" is a very different story from "WebFonts are rarely used in China because they are huge" or "WebFonts are rarely used in China because the license is too restrictive". |
Comparing the MIME types and the @font-face format strings, I see that woff2 and woff broadly correspond (75% and 9%) while SVG in format is much higher (6%) than as MIME type (,0.01%). Odd. |
The font table frequencies are hard to interpret, because the highest possible frequency is 6.97% (for all the mandatory tables). Maybe add another column which is the percentage of fonts containing that table (so |
Gstatic isn't blocked officially/nationally, but since the gfw is
administered regionally, and no servers are within prc, it is often
unreliable.
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Thanks for the clarification, @davelab6 |
note that the result sheet has add a table showing a percentage of mandatory tables in opentype as nice point of Chris. thanks. |
@jpamental @davelab6 is the content being developed in another repo? I had a look at the document to start reviewing, but it seems empty except for the early outline. |
Jason and I worked on the doc outline, folding in all comments inline, and
then it was Thanksgiving and while we both intended to contribute over the
holidays, we did not. I'm on a final week of paternity leave but I'll aim
to squeeze in an hour or two every night this week to get a fleshed out but
unedited article ready for launch.
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Not trying to rush you, just trying to contribute. I could also help with authoring, as well as reviewing, if you would like. |
Thank you Chris! Please dive in :)
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Quick update for everyone following here - I sadly failed to deliver in the last few days, but very graciously @raphlinus has stepped up and will be filling up that draft doc in the next day or two, and I aim to review on Sunday/Monday, such that the first draft can go to Rick and team on Tuesday. |
This adds a first draft of text, as well as images, for the fonts chapter. There's quite a bit more text, including some written by Jason, that hasn't been folded into this text. But I think it makes sense to get this in and then propose refinements on top of it. Closes #902
I reviewed the PR by @raphlinus which is overall very good. I suggested some additions and corrections. |
* First draft of Fonts chapter This adds a first draft of text, as well as images, for the fonts chapter. There's quite a bit more text, including some written by Jason, that hasn't been folded into this text. But I think it makes sense to get this in and then propose refinements on top of it. Closes #902 * Optimised images with calibre/image-actions * Tweak images This is mostly renaming as requested. This also uses the new "popular typefaces" data as generated by rick. * Optimised images with calibre/image-actions * add raph as contributor * More text This commit adds sections on WOFF (mime types generally), a paragraph on cache partitioning, local vs external hosting, and popular fonts. * Link for cache partitioning * Better figures * Fix first chart * Better descriptions * Fix typo * Adding Jason’s bio * Fixing typo * Adding bits to the variable fonts section * Last few figure descriptions * Response to review I've done my best to improve the text in response to thoughtful review comments by @svgeesus. * Address review feedback I've done my best to respond to feedback from @RoelN * Proper apostrophes and quotation marks * Adding bits about service speed comparisons & PFE * Switching back to straight quotes * More polishing A few improvements to the text, trying to accommodate all feedback. * Sharper characterization of JP font size I didn't get feedback on this from the PR, but think it's an improvement. * Update src/content/en/2020/fonts.md Adopt Roel's suggestion on EOT Co-authored-by: Roel Nieskens <RoelN@users.noreply.github.com> * One minor edit in the last paragraph * Improve stats (merge AbbyTsai suggestion) Co-authored-by: AbbyTsai <44442451+AbbyTsai@users.noreply.github.com> * Improve stats (merge AbbyTsai suggestion) Co-authored-by: AbbyTsai <44442451+AbbyTsai@users.noreply.github.com> * Improve stats (merge AbbyTsai suggestion) Co-authored-by: AbbyTsai <44442451+AbbyTsai@users.noreply.github.com> * Minor wording tweaks Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Rick Viscomi <rviscomi@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Barry <barry@tunetheweb.com> Co-authored-by: Jason Pamental <jason@rwt.io> Co-authored-by: Roel Nieskens <RoelN@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: AbbyTsai <44442451+AbbyTsai@users.noreply.github.com>
Part I Chapter 4: Fonts
Content team
Content team lead: @jpamental
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Milestones
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1. Plan content
2. Gather data
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4. Draft content
5. Publication
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