Hueman uses way too many fonts (up to 12!)

  • 18 months ago I reported a problem regarding the excessive and unnecessary amount of fonts that Hueman uses. For some reason, the original thread has been closed, but the situation with font loading has not been solved. I hope theme author @nikeo can have a look at it.

    Problems:

    1) Hueman uses way too many fonts. See list below.

    The theme author might have inherited this issue from @alxmedia, who is the original author of this fantastic theme. The typography and layout of a WP theme should not have to use 8 different woff/woff2 font files in order to look good.

    2) In Safari, the svg versions of Titillium is also loaded, i.e. svg versions as well as woff versions of the same font type. This adds another 4 font files, giving a total of 12 (!!!) font files in order to load a website using Hueman. This seems like a bug.

    List of 12 self-hosted font files loaded by Hueman (tested on my website and Hueman’s demo site with Safari browser on three different versions of macOS):

    fa-brands-400.woff2
fa-regular-400.woff2
fa-solid-900.woff2

titillium-light-webfont.woff
titillium-lightitalic-webfont.woff
titillium-regular-webfont.woff
titillium-regularitalic-webfont.woff
titillium-semibold-webfont.woff

titillium-light-webfont.svg
titillium-regular-webfont.svg
titillium-semibold-webfont.svg
titillium-lightitalic-webfont.svg

    Example: Screenshot (image) of Hueman’s demo site, showing that all woff fonts are (pre-)loaded first, then the corresponding svg versions: https://prnt.sc/1bd585f

    FYI: Original (closed) thread with further details on this issue.

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