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		mapt on Oct 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web Fonts Collateral Damage of Ad Blockers It may not be in the spirit of the web, but the current state of things is a failure. Less of a failure than 10 years ago, but still a failure. Packaging the most popular / representative, say, 256 free & open fonts together and distributing them with Firefox and Chrome would be a useful thing for designers of everything on the web other than fonts.

vacri on Oct 4, 2015 [–]

A gzipped truetype font is in the order of 100k, though plenty are bigger. 256 of these is ~25MB. Chrome and Firefox are only 45MB to begin with.

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