Goodme Frontend Team

Apr 7, 2025 · Frontend Development

How to Shrink Gigantic Web Fonts to Kilobytes: Subsetting & WOFF2 Tricks

This article explains why Chinese web fonts can be huge, compares TTF and WOFF2 sizes, and provides practical steps—including font subsetting with Python fontTools and on‑the‑fly loading via the FontFace API—to reduce font files from megabytes to a few kilobytes and dramatically speed up page rendering.