Adobe Blank: Font for developers

It looks like an April Fool's joke, but the Adobe Type Team has released a special font, Adobe Blank OpenType Font , covering the entire unicode table with empty glyphs (over 65,000). The font is rendered using non-spacing and non-marking glyphs and weighs 80kB.



The basis for the development of the font served two tasks:

First:

• Using this font as a temporary “ruler”, at the system or application level, you can disable replacing the desired font until it is completely rendered with the system font;
• Based on the previous implementation, using Adobe Blank you can determine when Webfont is really loaded, which is in its nature a hack of constraints in CSS.

The second:

• Enable Adobe Blank as a data URI in the CSS file.
• Font-family: SomeWebFont, “Adobe Blank”; for some DOM elements that contain text and should not have zero width. For example, a span that is positioned absolutely, off-screen.
• Check the width of the DOM element: if it is 0 - SomeWebFont is not loaded yet, if it is larger, it is loaded.

Now the font is located on Sourceforge. In the near future a mirror will be opened on GitHub.