What Are the Best Export Settings for Web Fonts

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Obviously, smaller is better for web fonts. Mine are rather big due to the large number of glyphs, but then that also makes them more versatile.

I did a test with my font using the various export options:

  1. Postscript Names + Hinting = 368 KB (376,857 bytes)
  2. No Postscript Names + Hinting = 344 KB (352,845 bytes)
  3. No Postscript Names No Hinting = 293 KB (300,213 bytes)
  4. No Kerning Tables Either = 282 KB (288,937 bytes)

Can web fonts make use of kerning tables? Hinting is presumably useful, while postscript names are probably not.

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Our web font demo page doesn’t support it (yet), but it seems several browsers do support kerning:
http://caniuse.com/#search=kerning

I found that page through:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning

I think it is best to include hinting and to exclude PostScript names. I’m not sure about kerning, but since it is a small part of the data I wouldn’t worry about it.

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Thank you. I will create a test page with WOFF fonts next week and see how it works.