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Update README.md to mention CBDT is preferred over COLR in Android as…
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anthrotype committed Oct 3, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -49,10 +49,15 @@ The intended result is a font that will Just Work in any modern browser:
| SVG | Firefox, Safari | |
| CBDT | Chrome <98 | Only generated if you pass `--bitmaps` to `maximum_color`|

Note that at time of writing Chrome 98+ prefers CBDT to COLR. Also CBDT is
huge. So ... maybe take the resulting font and subset it per-browser if at
Note that at time of writing Chrome 98+ prefers CBDT to COLR. Same for any environment,
such as Android, that relies on Skia, which in turns depends on FreeType to parse color
tables (cf. [Skia's issue 12945][skia-12945] and [FreeType's issue 1142][ft-1142]).
Also CBDT is huge. So ... maybe take the resulting font and subset it per-browser if at
all possible. Wouldn't it be nice if Google Fonts did that for you?

[skia-12945]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/skia/issues/detail?id=12945
[ft-1142]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/1142

## Releasing

See https://googlefonts.github.io/python#make-a-release.
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