The Joy of Subsets: Crossbreeding Web Fonts

Anyone using this?

[tangor]

95% of web design is typography. The remaining 5% is spent trying to fix infinite task runner recursion and swearing. However, when we say “web typography”, we rarely mean type design. Choosing, pairing and setting fonts are the more commonplace activities, with type design regarded as a more specialist and esoteric occupation.

[sitepoint.com...]

Though this is a CSS blog (with many contributors) this particular article is something I've not seen before. Anyone have any experience in using such technique for web fonts for page display?

[lucy24]

Using a font that requires fetching a resource from a third-party site? No thanks. For the user, that's no different from hotlinking.

[tangor]

I wouldn't use it (if nothing else I'm JS free on all but three sites). Just intrigued by the concept and disappointed, like you, that it takes a third party to accomplish.

[lucy24]

On the rare occasions where I use an embedded font, the first thing I do is make a bare-bones, stripped-down version that consists of nothing but ASCII alphanumerics plus basic punctuation (curly quotes, that kind of thing). Of course that's still ten times bigger than it needs to be if you're looking only at the headers for some individual page.