LingDong-
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4 years ago Thanks so much for the suggestion! I managed to reduce the size of qiji.ttf by 20% by assigning multiple unicode values to glyphs!
There is a 5% further improvement by using glyph.simplify(), but since it's hard to evaluate how much it modifies the shape I didn't want to risk it. I did add both optimizations to qiji-fallback.ttf, since they're randomly generated anyways.
The woff2 files didn't see much of a reduction though (5.2MB -> 5.1MB)
But still, pretty neat! Thanks for bringing this up. I've updated the releases, and committed 055a5dc1072138c37d70560dd17208f97bf18410
Assigning multiple Unicode values to each unique glyph image will decrease the size of the font file.
Possibly lines 62-71 of forge_font.py can be rewritten as:
other = other - set(care.values()) if len(other) > 0: glyph.altuni = [ ord(o) for o in other ]
And I suggest the use of glyph.simplify() to remove redundant points from each glyph.