I have moved the website from using Bitstream Charter/Charis SIL for the body text to using Roboto Serif. This is a new font for the 2020s, having been released in 2022. I have minimized its size by subsetting the font to only have ASCII, some limited extended punctuation (smart quotes, etc.), and Spanish language letters.
To my eyes, Roboto Serif invokes something from the mid 20th century. It looks more like a slab serif than a traditional serif at the weight and grading I use for the body text, and while a modern typeface, has a look which feels like a rose tinted view of life in the 1950s or 1960s.
The website continues to use Source Sans for the headings; I have been using Source Sans since 2012 so having this font on the webpage is now a tradition I would like to keep, to honor the past while looking forward towards the future.
In addition, Internet Explorer is no longer on Windows 11 at all, so there is no need to continue using larger WOFF files for the fonts. All fonts are in WOFF2 format; if someone (heaven forbid) comes to this website with an ancient browser (IE, etc.) which only supports WOFF but not WOFF2, they will use one of the fallback fonts in the font stacks I have made.
The new combined CSS file with fonts is only 83,649 bytes in size. The older combined CSS file for the fonts is 116,472 bytes long.
The files which make up this typeface are here:
https://samiam.org/In addition, a version of this font for desktop (word processor, etc.) use is here:fonts/ Kilroy8/
https://samiam.org/fonts/ KilroyA/
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