Reducing font resource size

Unity Engine
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After building my app for Android, I’ve opened the editor log to look at resource sizes, and I noticed that fonts take a lot of space, really too much.

The SDF resources are huge, over 1 MB each, and I’ve also noticed the TTF sources are also embedded, which seems unncecessary. Alltogether, there’s more than 10 MB of these resources in the resulting APK, which is kind of a lot for mobile apps.

Is there a way to better compress the SDF resources and skip the TTF files for builds?

Edit: I’m using TextMeshPro.

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Not sure how much could help but maybe you could look into Text Mesh Pro as it uses a custom generated file for the font. So it takes the original font you have chose to use and creates a file that Text Mesh Pro uses. So I think ti should take less space. It also looks better.