![]() ![]() It is worth noting that the largest provider for Bootstrap ( BootstrapCDN) also provides icon fonts from Font Awesome, so it may be that it is not Bootstrap itself but rather older versions also referencing icon font files that is behind the rise in that source data.Īnother surprise in the data is the rise in fonts being served by Shopify. Adobe Fonts (formerly Typekit) has dropped about 3% as well, but Bootstrap usage has grown from about 3% to over 6% (in aggregate from several providers). It likely comes as no surprise that Google Fonts remains by far the most popular platform, but the percentage use has actually dropped almost 5% from 2019 to about 70%. Popularity of Google Fonts amongst font-hosting services. There have been reports that Google Fonts have not been reliably accessible in China and that might also have been a factor holding back adoption.įigure 4.4. Although recent developments in progressive font enhancement–which we will cover more below–may make web fonts usable in both countries within a couple of years. This means web font usage in Japan is very low, and usage in China is effectively zero. Web font usage in Japan and Chinese-speaking countries is considerably lower, likely because Chinese and Japanese fonts are vastly larger (the median font size can be 1000 times or more larger than the median Latin size). The country that uses the most font bytes is South Korea, which is not all that surprising given their consistently high internet speeds and low latency and the fact that Korean (Hangul) fonts are almost an order of magnitude larger than Latin. Noteable “hot spots” highlighted with low font usage include Africa, Turkmenistan, Taiwan, Japan and a number of other far eastern countries Figure 4.2. A map of the world showing the amount of web font usage for each country, measured as median kilobytes of web font data.
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