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		paxys on Feb 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Fonts Analytics I assumed 22 kb (compressed) font size. That's the average of the top 10 on their list. (Roboto is 35kb uncompressed for me, not 170kb).

raphlinus on Feb 20, 2020 [–]

35kb sounds like the basic (mostly latin-1) subset. The size will vary a fair amount depending on which subset is selected, etc. In any case, fonts will almost always be served compressed, with WOFF2 being the vast majority of requests.

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