diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8768974f..5770c40e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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.