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  • Chris Hayeschris@nutmeg.social
    Sep 9, 2026, 4:51 AM

    RE: neighborhood.11ty.dev/@11ty/11

    Ooh #Speedlify got a big update.

    This year I moved away from emojis and web safe fonts, following a new design for my personal site. It goes for a more unique feel that heavily relies on SVGs. After selecting fonts I thought were interesting (Luciole & Rakkas), I found a tool to prune the characters I don't use, taking them down to ~10 KB each.

    Seems to have paid off, made it into the top 100 on the leaderboard. 😁 #WebDev

    My personal site at rank #81 on the Speedlify leaderboard, showing perfect scores across all lighthouse metrics and no AXE accessibility issues. The leaderboard contains about 1,500 websites with about 150 of them with perfect scores.
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  • Chris Hayeschris@nutmeg.social
    Sep 9, 2026, 4:54 AM

    Though had to cheat with the Bookwyrm icon by using a book, I could not find a way to make their logo work.

    I made a solid color version of their logo, I tried just showing the dragon's head, but at the smaller scale it just didn't look right and the head look a bit weird. #Design

    The section of my website that shows my social media list, with Bookwyrm highlighted. Each social platform has a logo, but for Bookwyrm I used a generic book icon as I couldn't get the dragon to look good. My username on Bookwyrm is @chris-hayes on the official server.
    The official Bookwyrm logo. It's a somewhat detailed dragon, that uses multiple blues and greens, and features a book in the center.
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  • Chris Hayeschris@nutmeg.social
    Sep 10, 2026, 4:20 AM

    @autiomaa I used the CLI tool, `fonttools`, which has a `fonttools subset` feature. I used it with the flag `--unicodes="U+0020-007E"` to only retain ASCII characters (no accents, no em dashes, no fancy quotes, etc).

    In the future I'll probably tweak what character are included as I like to use proper quotation marks.

    I did a little post here about it: nutmeg.social/@chris/116661740

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  • Daniel Schildtautiomaa@mementomori.social
    Sep 10, 2026, 4:32 AM

    @chris Interesting. I think I could try to make a Podman-based container for fonttools, so that it could be used without having to install those dependencies directly to the host system. Or I could add the font subsetting task to the existing container that builds my 11ty based site, so that it could be automated as a part of the build process, if needed.

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