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– DRAFT –
Web Fonts Working Group Teleconference

26 August 2025

Attendees

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ChrisL, Garret, Skef streude, Vlad
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Chair
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Garret

Meeting minutes

Update on my side: I've been working on gathering data on unicode codepoint frequencies across the web. I've got initial data now but need to get permissions to release it publicly. That might take a bit.

<ChrisL> I reviewed the changes, they are fine

Updates to the spec since last meeting: couple of PRs to remove "should" keyword from non-normative sections to avoid confusion.

conformance testing.

Vlad: thanks Scott for adding conformance sppans

Vlad: looks like you can hover over them, but not really well identified otherwise.

Vlad: for woff2 we had 4 categories each span was identified with.

Vlad: so when you hovered it'd clearly identified.

<ChrisL> see w3c/IFT#293

Garret: I think we want to have just client and encoder for this spec.

Agreement that this sounds good.

Garret: Scott has agreed to develop an initial prototype of a client conformance test

Vlad: should we have a discussion ahead of time about a test plan for each test?

Garret: yes that makes sense, for now Scott's just developing a prototype to prove out the mechanism for testing. We should have those discussions in parallel.

<ChrisL> I fixed the stylesheet

Garret: my suggestion is we have the test plan document in the client test repo and link from the test files to it. I'll set up a skeleton test plan.

<Vlad> Hereis the link to test related descriptions for both woff and woff2 specs: https://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/wiki/Main_Page

Chris: fixed the stylesheet PR, will merge now.

Garret: I can also do a first pass for the straightforward tests.

Vlad: what date for the next meeting?

Vlad: sept 9th or 16th

Garret: let's do 16th

Skef: may be starting work soon on some of the presegmenting stuff I've talked about previously.

Skef: for the frequency data it might also be nice to know about languages that occur together.

Garret: I may be able to get that data, let me look into it.

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