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