Typesetting for a Global Web
summary
The talk gives concrete fixes and measured results: web text is 54% English though native speakers are 5%, 146 scripts still lack Unicode support, CJK fonts commonly hit ~16 MB. Demos show a working Firefox fonts panel that pinpoints missing glyphs, composite fonts built with unicode-range, and an woff2 incremental-transfer prototype that cuts >20 KB compared with full subsets. It explains font-face matching, font-language-override, variable font axes, and when these techniques actually reduce load or visibly preserve correct glyphs.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 17:50BRIDGING A FONT REFERENCE WITH FONT DATA
- 32:54INCREMENTAL TRANSFER DEMO
- 34:00OPENTYPE FEATURES
- 34:44FONT FEATURE PROPERTIES
- 36:03font-variant-east-asian
- 39:22THE text-transform PROPERTY
- 40:15LINE BREAKS IN INLINE BOXES
- 41:36CSS FOR CONTROLLING LINE BREAKS
- 44:56TEXT ALIGNMENT AND JUSTIFICATION
- 47:55NOT JUST FOR EAST ASIAN TEXT
