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Originally Posted by NullNix
It is actually *possible* that it was synthesising it on earlier systems, using FT_Glyph_Transform(). (However, the amount of space consumed by one extra font is so limited that frankly I don't believe it either. Transformation matrices are useful if you want to avoid having to lug thousands of rarely-used fonts around... not so much to avoid *one*.)
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That filesize shown is the uncompressed size (400KB).
The fonts are inside of a squashFS filesystem, and used from there.
So the actual storage consumed is considerably smaller.
(I have since dis-mounted the 5.8.9.2 image and its fonts.sqsfs file, so I can't give precise sizes now. I could look up the numbers again if anyone was seriously interested.)