Implement Local Font Access API

[RoelN]

The local font access API will give access to locally installed fonts. So instead of manually dropping or "uploading" a file, you would be able to pick an installed font from a dropdown, and have Wakamai Fondue analyse that.

This would make it much easier to test/inspect local fonts, especially ones that live in obscure places on your filesystem. No more hunting for binary files in strange directories!

https://web.dev/local-fonts/

[Ryuno-Ki]

I would vote against this.

On Linux, I would need to drop my fonts in $HOME/.fonts.
But at work, I might have a font file as part of a project I'm working on. I might need a license to use it privately (which I wouldn't have). But I could upload it to Wakamai Fondue for analysing (e.g. subsequently subsetting it).

[RoelN]

To clarify, nothing is ever being uploaded. That's the whole thing of Wakamai Fondue, it all happens in-browser. It doesn't modify the font or let you subset it. So I don't see how you'd break any license for local fonts.

[Ryuno-Ki]

That's not what I'm concerned about.

As far as I understand, local font access deals about fonts that are accessible locally (e.g. part of Libre Office font selection).
If I have font files in a git repository as part of a project, these are web fonts hosted locally, i.e. not part of my system fonts.

If you remove the ability to pick a folder I would have no way to pick those fonts.

[RoelN]

Wait — Wakamai Fondue will still allow you to drop a file like it does today. On top of that it will let you select the fonts installed on your OS though the LFA API. So I'm not removing anything!

[Ryuno-Ki]

So instead of manually dropping or "uploading" a file

Looks like I misinterpreted the „instead of” here.

[RoelN]

Gotcha, I see how my wording is ambiguous. I meant to emphasise the difference in how to access these fonts, not that drag-and-drop would be excluded!