Hi all,
I tend to use fontsquirrel for things like this. It also allows to filter your search for languages. Sadly though for me in China it is hardly possible to use the filters due to timeouts. However, looking for scripts,.. how would you imagine doing that for Chinese or Hindi? I actually thought this was limited to the English text "Draw Freely". I would suggest that the slogan can be edited freely for other languages and fonts chosen as required. Vectorising the fonts would also solve the problem as it then no longer is a font. No need to download font files either that way for those few characters.
When it comes to Chinese fonts, they can have up to 180.000 characters for the traditional ones and come at a whopping 18 MB for a font file. It's one of the reasons I am not that happy with deprecating SVG fonts in SVG 2.0. It was a godsend for keeping the glyph libraries small. The alternative now is to create font subsets for every page. But yeah,.. that's another discussion.
I think the website font is more of an issue really. That one requires a number of font sets to be chosen and recommended for several of the larger language groups. That basically leaves us with only a few options as the amount of fonts that cater to the world are pretty few. Only fonts used by OS interfaces will be available all others will be proprietary created by foundries that spend years on it.
Cheers,
Jelle
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Jelle Mulder