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Live font watching on the hosted site#29

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Chrome can keep a handle to a font file you pick, so the hosted site now reloads fonts automatically when you re-export them. Same idea as the local fonts folder workflow.

  • Choose Files and drag & drop both watch the picked files (polls lastModified once a second)
  • re-saving a font reloads the proof and keeps you on the font you edited
  • add fonts chip to watch more, x on each chip to remove one
  • Chromium browsers only, Safari and Firefox fall back to the one-time load like before
  • ?hosted on localhost forces the hosted code path for testing

Tested on localhost with the ?hosted param, load / re-save / add / remove all work.

Picked and dropped fonts are watched via File System Access handles
(Chromium only) and reload automatically when re-saved. Adds an
add-fonts chip, per-font remove, and a ?hosted param to force the
hosted code path on localhost. Safari/Firefox keep the one-time load.
@jakefleming jakefleming merged commit 6388420 into master Jul 10, 2026
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