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Font Optimization

Font files contain a vector description of each character and metadata. They also often contain various fine-tuning.

That's how fine-tuning affects font display. All these settings are needed for designers, not for websites.
That’s how fine-tuning affects font display. All these settings are needed for designers, not for websites.

To optimize the font, you need to:

  • Remove extra characters. For example, fractions, complex mathematical signs, and other rarely used symbols.
  • Leave only the letters of the alphabet used on the site in the file. The font can contain more than 10 languages, but 2 will be enough for you: the language of your site and the English alphabet to display foreign names of sites, brands, and other things.
  • Remove all the fine-tuning embedded in the font by its author. They can’t be used on the site anyway.
  • Use the woff2 format.

You can do all this in our service.

Explore also for professional erudition:

  • You can see how fine-tuning font files work in the service [https://fontdrop.info /](https://fontdrop.info /).
  • A complete list of similar settings described here.
  • Our article on font optimization.
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