perf: create junicode subset to improve performance #400
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As mentioned in #389, both font families (Junicode and Junicode-Italic) were over 1 MB in size but not heavily used on the site. To optimize this, I created subsets of both font families using glyphhanger and fonttools/pyftsubset. The subsets now contain only the characters that are actively being used.
This process resulted in the following size reductions:
Additionally, I disabled several unused OpenType features. The parameters used for pyftsubset were as follows:
--flavor=woff2 --layout-features='liga,kern' --no-hintingYou can view a comparison of the subset and the original font here. Some features would need to be enabled to maintain the font's appearance identical to the original. It's up to us to decide if it's worth it.
If you need to create new subsets, here are the relevant resources:
Glyphhanger repository
FontTools pyftsubset documentation