Parse Webfonts

[jedateach]

Rather than using a custom format to store the font, is it viable to instead parse a webfont?
I'm sure the webfont formats are already light weight compared to the format used by this library, so there would surely be savings there.

In my mind this would effectively cut out the need to do font conversion, and open the library to easily accessing many more fonts. There could be download savings if the font is used on other parts of the site already.

Looks like there's already js libraries to do parsing: https://opentype.js.org.
It might just be a matter of creating some kind of transformer that takes their data and converts it to txtjs form.