> I don't understand why they don't just ship a huge set of fonts by default.
It takes a lot of work to draw a reasonable large set of all the Unicode characters for a given language. Time is money and fonts are ridiculously expensive.
That being said, Firefox has funded a few fonts over the years but they don’t bundle them with the browser. Google has a huge collection but doesn’t bundle them either. It makes more sense with Google as it can collect user data from its WebFont as a service system.
It takes a lot of work to draw a reasonable large set of all the Unicode characters for a given language. Time is money and fonts are ridiculously expensive.
That being said, Firefox has funded a few fonts over the years but they don’t bundle them with the browser. Google has a huge collection but doesn’t bundle them either. It makes more sense with Google as it can collect user data from its WebFont as a service system.