Post #2833934
2025-09-29 14:02 UTC
@behdad@typo.social I completely missed the memo on `VARC`. Is there a way to automate this for existing fonts?
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@behdad@typo.social 2025-09-29 16:19
@pixelambacht@typo.social That's a very good question. It's not impossible but unlikely to be how we approach shipping fonts. Before we had any real font test data for this, I wrote code to take NotoCJK fonts and try to componentize them automatically using Singular Value Decomposition on the point data. It worked to some extent and proved the concept. For Hangul, I showed 92% filesize saving!!! The code is here: https://github.com/googlefonts/smarties Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YNRNyGdFIv_jBBkEROzBn0VC7X3h6QUTSndfC1Kb1YI/preview