Korean on Google Fonts

Rod Sheeter, Garret Rieger

Labs 2018

Saturday, 14 April 2018 | 11:00 | Nave

English

Korean on Google Fonts

Rod Sheeter, Garret Rieger

Labs 2018 | Saturday, 14 April 2018 | 11:00 | Nave | English

Google Fonts delivers free, open source, fonts to billions of pages across the web. In recent years we have improved our quality and added support for a range of languages but were never able to support Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. Recently we have explored, validated, and shipped a CSS-only solution, leveraging unicode-range and Google's web index data to intelligently partition fonts to minimize transfer size, number of requests, and latency and optimize cross-site caching when delivering Korean fonts. We believe our solution will also apply to Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

Font Technology

Rod Sheeter

Tech Lead/Manager of Google Fonts

Rod came to fonts by accident, having been rudely disabused of the notion text was a "solved problem." Four years later it's still not solved :) As an individual contributor and now Tech Lead/Manager on Google Fonts he helped to nudge along WOFF2 and unicode-range, bring the Google Fonts collection... Read More

Garret Rieger

Senior Software Engineer, Google

Garret is a software engineer working at Google. For the last 4 years he’s worked as the production lead for the Google Fonts project. As part of his role he works to expand, scale, and optimize Google’s font serving API. Recently he’s been working to add support for delivering fonts for large... Read More