Talk

Optimizing Chinese Webfont & Typography

By Andy Shu

Chinese fonts are mega-bytes in size and had been difficult to use on the Web. Not anymore. With dynamic subsetting, we can strip the unnecessary glyphs and make the fonts much smaller. With optimized Chinese webfonts, you can give your web pages/apps visual distinction without sacrificing loading performance.

Details

Date & Time
Day 2 (25th June) 05:35 - 06:05
Location
Function Room 1
Category
Cloud
Language
Cantonese/Mandarin, depending preferences of the audience
Target Audience
Developers, Users
Requirement
Some CSS knowledge would be useful
Beginners

I will introduce how digital fonts work, how webfonts work, and focus on how to make Chinese fonts load faster, so that they are accessible via the web. In particular, I'll share about "dynamic subsetting", that is, deleting unused glyphs in a font, according to the content of the web page. I'll also talk about available libraries, caching and deployment consideration, and alternative approaches.

If I have more time, I can talk about other Chinese layout topics, such as vertical layout(直排)on the web, browser features like CSS unicode-ranges, etc.

Andy Shu

Origin
Hong Kong
Residence
China
Company
Strikingly

Biography

Former editor at Mingpao Daily, Data Journalist at Initium Media; currently Frontend Engineer at Strikingly.