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I've been using https://icomoon.io/app/ for years now to pick only the fonts I like and it can also generate icon fonts from svg so that I can merge different icon sets and pick the only icons I will use in my projects.
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These things highlight how the current system of font distribution is really suboptimal. Even CDN hits are metered, and the idea that I need to either load or cache a bunch of data to render text is dumb. My employer manages like $20k devices. I betcha we spend 5 figures annually on this crap.
It's a deceptively hard problem to solve. installing a ton of fonts up front takes a pretty significant amount of space, installing a subset for their language/preference or letting the user manage it makes it VERY easy to fingerprint users based on what fonts they download, and doing any kind of cross-origin long-term caching is a security nightmare as it lets you begin to map out where a user has been just based on…
It solves a problem that people other than web designers care very little about, but costs me money and creates a slew of other problems...
Personally, I wish it was easy to just turn off!
Or and sorry to say cause I like FA, screw them and see if Apple/MS/Google can have an open standard icon font that doesn't suck.
Or and sorry to say cause I like FA, screw them and see if Apple/MS/Google can have an open standard icon font that doesn't suck.
Is the 2000TB/day number reasonable, or just clickbait? It's all based on coming up with two numbers that when multiplied say that this resource is downloaded 73 billion times a day. That's 20 times / day for every internet user (even those using it on a 2G connection once a year). Given a reasonable caching period of 1 month, that'd mean the average user visits 600 different sites a month. That seems like much more…
73,000,000 sites * 1000 visitors * 10 bytes / 1024^3I've been using https://icomoon.io/app/ for years now to pick only the fonts I like and it can also generate icon fonts from svg so that I can merge different icon sets and pick the only icons I will use in my projects.
Is the 2000TB/day number reasonable, or just clickbait? It's all based on coming up with two numbers that when multiplied say that this resource is downloaded 73 billion times a day. That's 20 times / day for every internet user (even those using it on a 2G connection once a year). Given a reasonable caching period of 1 month, that'd mean the average user visits 600 different sites a month. That seems like much more…
By renaming the CSS file from `font-awesome.min.css` to `fa.min.css` they could save 660GB a day: 73,000,000 sites * 1000 visitors * 10 bytes / 1024^3