My opening post centers on Japanese fonts, but the main thrust of what I seek applies to English fonts too. For truly, does every Blocs user really use Google web fonts exclusively, with no local fonts other than Helvetica? Seems strange to me if true. So when I speak about “Font Sets” in my opening post, I am not just asking about Japanese. Let’s say I want to add Times as a local font, which is a standard font on Windows and Mac. Who doesn’t have Times, right? So I would want to create a Font Set of sorts in Blocs based on the Times font, but I would also want to setup fallback in the rare event that someone out there lacks that otherwise ubiquitous font. So in my SoftPress Freeway documents, I have a “Times” Font Set that includes Times and also Times New Roman and then “serif.” Having fallback is the right thing to do when using local fonts, an it would seem like a good idea to use at least some local fonts to avoid the situation if your web visitors having to download web fonts before they can see any text in your site.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this. Thanks.