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Indeed the file size is simply larger than what you are used to because of the greater coverage of glyphs. Subsetting is a pretty easy process and whenever Inter UI gets onto Google Fonts, you may be able to grab subsets from them.
I propose you read the following article: https://www.bramstein.com/writing/web-font-anti-patterns-subsetting.html
In practice, the file size makes little difference in speed, especially on high-end mobile devices where the TCP/IP handshake and TLS negotiation of a new connection often takes several orders of magnitude longer than transfering packets for a file itself. (I worked on this kind of stuff at the Facebook mobile infrastructure team a few years ago.)
If you still insist in subsetting, you can use Google's sfntly
(https://github.com/googlei18n/sfntly; macOS Homebrew repo here https://github.com/bramstein/homebrew-webfonttools)
@philipbelesky I'd stronly recommend against including subsets in the NPM package. It's both easy to make a mistake (and not knowing it, like dropping a component used by a glyph left in, causing certain software to choke) and the world speaks many languages β e.g. providing a ASCII-only subset would not be usable for any display of user data (e.g. on a website) and in my experience most people using NPM never look at the details, so it's very possible that users of such subsets won't actually understand the compromises they are making.
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I assume this is at least partly because the glyph set covers a lot of language characters that might be stripped away in more 'optimised' web fonts. If @rsms is interested I'd be happy to look at producing smaller subsets (either here or in the npm package) that reduce file size by offering narrower language support. I'm not super experienced with font editing but my first guess for how to do that would be a via a bash script that runs some font forge commands?
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That would be greatly appreciated... @rsms ?
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