Font Library in WordPress 6.5
Aurooba and Brian dig into the Font Library - a flagship feature launching in WordPress 6.5. Along the way they discuss the long road getting it into core, some user interface issues, and the future of "composability" in WordPress.
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- Fonts in WP Tavern - https://wptavern.com/a-pared-back-web-fonts-api-may-land-in-wordpress-6-0-or-not-at-all
- Rich Tabor - Composability - https://rich.blog/theme-composition/
- WordPress 6.5 - https://make.wordpress.org/core/6.5
- Brian's Tavern Article - https://wptavern.com/synced-pattern-overrides-punted-font-library-approved-as-wordpress-6-5-nears-release
- Brian's website – https://www.briancoords.com
- Aurooba's website – https://aurooba.com
- (00:00) - S02E12 - Font Library
- (00:09) - Intro and WordPress 6.5
- (03:08) - Font Library and Developers Naming Things
- (05:05) - Release Landing Page, Playground, and WP CLI
- (09:49) - Styles Panel in the Site Editor
- (13:23) - Typography Panel and Tech issues
- (18:05) - Variants and Variable Fonts
- (19:52) - Google Fonts and GDPR
- (21:43) - Saving changes in the site editor
- (24:58) - Font Library's Journey to Core
- (28:01) - Ongoing Discussion for the Font Library
- (32:25) - The Hosting Companies Responsibility
- (35:47) - Composability
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Aurooba Ahmed
(she/her) Developer building bespoke #WordPress solutions, tools, and blocks. My name is pronounced "oo-ROO-ba" — Default to kindness, folks.
