The State of Progressive Font Enrichment

Garret Rieger is a software engineer working at Google. For the last seven years, he’s worked as the production lead for the Google Fonts project. As part of his role, Rieger works to expand, scale, and optimize Google’s font-serving API. Recently, he’s been working with the W3C web fonts working group to standardize incremental font transfer.

Rod Sheeter came to fonts by accident, having been rudely disabused of the notion text was a “solved problem.” Some years later, it’s still not solved :) As an individual contributor and now Tech Lead/Manager on Google Fonts, Sheeter helped to nudge along WOFF2 and unicode-range, bring the Google Fonts collection to Android, and add CJK support to Google Fonts. He is now working on specification and Open Text Stack support for color vector variable fonts, with a particular eye to emoji usage.