Web fonts and privacy

Posted Nov 7, 2013 13:37 UTC (Thu) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041)
In reply to: Web fonts and privacy by njwhite
Parent article: Web fonts, open source, and industry disruption

It's not entirely straightforward; an OFL font with an RFN has to be renamed (in the binary as well as filenames) if you alter it or even subset it. For quite a few languages with large glyph sets, not subsetting the font adds considerable load time time for the user and bandwidth for the site owner. Services like GWF or others of its ilk do the RFN license-negotiating once for everyone, and subset on the fly.

Nate