On Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:04:41 GMT, Hannes Wallnöfer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please review a change to reduce the size of web fonts included with API > documentation bundles while preserving support for character ranges used by > the vast majority bundles. The following steps are taken to reduce the size > of bundled web fonts from 4 MB before the change to roughly 930 kb. > > - Drop support for for WOFF format, since the newer WOFF2 format is widely > supported by modern web browsers. Since WOFF2 uses improved compression, this > removes more than 50% of the original file size. > - Limit web fonts to a subset of characters commonly used in API > documentation. This leaves out special characters such as dingbats, emojis, > shapes, tiles and pictograms that are better covered by system fonts. > > Generally, web browsers fall back to system fonts on a per-character basis, > so there is no loss of functionality as long as system fonts provide good > Unicode support. > > This change also removes the console warnings seen in Firefox and possibly > other browsers by recalculating the bounding boxes of converted web fonts. > > --------- > - [x] I confirm that I make this contribution in accordance with the [OpenJDK > Interim AI Policy](https://openjdk.org/legal/ai). LGTM ------------- Marked as reviewed by nbenalla (Reviewer). PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/32058#pullrequestreview-4796998407
