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Originally Posted by theducks
Your list is fairly complete, I see you have been working on this issue a few times 
I will add: Retailer demanded Bloat. Thumbnail covers, Hi-Def covers.
The best gain on sub-setting a font would be for those 'Display' fonts that might be only used for Chapter titles, Initial Letters.
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... rr any OpenType font containing multiple character sets, especially those containing unused complex sets (e.g. the various Japanese kana, Chinese, ...) which can be huge when complete. With these, subsetting a font used for the main body text can result in a massive size reduction.