In the Photon docs, I read:

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You should always use scalable font technology, unless you use a highly contained system that only requires specific 
point sizes. Once you start adding additional bitmap fonts for more point sizes, any benefits are quickly lost due to 
large file sizes. Due to the flexibility and speed of current scalable font technology, bitmap fonts are no longer 
recommended.

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Given the complexity of generating a visible character out of a scalable font, I wonder if this is a good recommendation
? Especially for non-x86, e.g. ARM9 or small PPC systems, wouldn't it be better to use bitmap fonts?

Also, file size and performance are deemed equally important here - but what does a few 100k of saved space give me when
 my users can watch the fonts being rendered?


- Malte