You can also strip unused characters from fonts! I use Prism to render code blocks on my blog, which pulls in FontAwesome for only two characters. Stripping all but those two characters reduced the font file size from 160kb to 680 bytes.[0]
I remember having to do this with icomoon back in the day when icon fonts were all the rage because svg support in ie11 was lacking and downloading the entirety of font awesome was a huge payload hit.
You can also strip unused characters from fonts! I use Prism to render code blocks on my blog, which pulls in FontAwesome for only two characters. Stripping all but those two characters reduced the font file size from 160kb to 680 bytes.[0]
[0]. https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/remove-unused-characters-fo...
I remember having to do this with icomoon back in the day when icon fonts were all the rage because svg support in ie11 was lacking and downloading the entirety of font awesome was a huge payload hit.