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by steveruizok 971 days ago
Embedding fonts isn't really great for SVG exports; either you link to the fonts, in which case the SVGs only load correctly when the user has the font locally or is online, and the CDN is still running; or else you embed them as base 64, which makes the image very large.

We do the base 64 route for tldraw, which is sort of the best of all bad options. I'd like to someday add more export options so that a creator could host the fonts themselves on the same site where the SVG is shown.