David’s design on his blog is fantastic likely from years of small improvements like this converting ugly quotes to pretty quotes and optimizing fonts.
It’s common for markdown libraries to convert the first to the second like my build script does.
This is new to me, I had no idea that markdown libraries did this, I’m now interested if markdown-it does it.
For subsetting I use the fontTools library but I’ve no idea how to setup Python environments. I got it working once and failed to document the process.
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