As a die hard lover of the eurostile inspired 'monofur' as my programming font Space Mono looks very, very interesting.
Conclusion: Not as good as monofur
Google Fonts Redesigned
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I have seen plenty of corporate software that was supposed to work with exactly that version of IE. When you were automatically forced to upgrade to a newer version usually nothing worked anymore. In some cases even forcing the compatibility layer. I would rather see that kind of software, developers that produced it and users disappear. In my experience few things are more annoying than an IE specific website. If yo…
It's not really about being "happy" to use IE. It's about using what does the job.
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Any suggestions on finding the latest, greatest versions of these fonts? For example, I found what appears to be the home page of Monsterrat ( http://montserrat.zkysky.com.ar/en ) but it directs me to Google Fonts. Similarly, I searched for "vernon adams fonts" and I don't see what looks like a canonical page for them.
Brick.im[1] hosts free fonts on Fastly's CDN. Fonts are directly converted from their sources to .woff only; doesn't support other font formats. No subsetting means the fonts can be very large, especially those with full OpenType features. Most of the fonts are of the latest version though. Fonts not included in Google Fonts, like Linux Libertine/Biolinum, Aileron, and Heuristica are included. If you don't mind the p…
Many thanks! Brick looks like a great resource, and it's great to have the latest Montserrat.
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I get the same in every browser I try on Linux. I don't get the point of this. I really don't. While far from perfect, web fonts have largely been a solved problem for a while now, so why are Google reinventing this wheel? This seems to happen all the time with the web; people taking old ideas and reinventing them again and again, in yet more bloated ways, breaking things for millions.
Not every browser on Ubuntu 16.04: Firefox displays those boxes but Vivaldi, Opera and Chromium work fine.
Google might have fixed some of the issues now - it was a day ago many of the bug were raised.
Just for reference, I was running ArchLinux with the Infinality font bungles.
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Sounds like parent is saying Google is spending time to deliberately block/not support Edge.
How much time would they have to spend with support requests if they don't spend the small amount of time required to tell people to use something else? I understand your point, but I personally don't care about proprietary software not working with certain websites -- they chose to make it their problem alone. It sucks that Google isn't choosing to not support them because of _that_, it's because they've had bad exp…
1) Google generally doesn't answer support requests, they let a random Google Group handle it for "community support". (Unless you are an Apps customer in which case you might expect a reply somewhere between a week and a two years later, and it's still recommended you try the "community support" first.)
2) This isn't a "We won't support you, use at your own risk" banner, this is a Chrome ad. It's a Chrome ad disguised as a support banner. It's a Chrome ad that is designed to get ignorant users to install Chrome out of some fear. This is no better than those "Your computer is unprotected, install this fake anti-virus to fix your computer" malware ads you see everywhere! Sure, maybe Chrome isn't malware to you, but it's unneeded confusion to, say, my grandmother, to have her browser suddenly change because she installed a thing Google told she had to to stay "supported"...
3) This is a case of "Proprietary" versus "Proprietary" on Windows: Chromium is open, Chrome is not and especially on Windows has adware and custom extensions that are fairly opaque and proprietary. On the other side of the fence: Edge's JS engine (Chakra) is open source and community developed, and Edge's WebGL renderer just became open source. Edge is already more open and standards compliant than IE ever was. Blaming Edge for IE's old problems is like kicking your new puppy for things your recently deceased dog did.
4) Yes, as a web developer, I remember bad experiences with IE's implementations of standards, but unlike some I also remember some of the good experiences. I also am aware enough as a web developer to know that IE's "bad" implementations helped make the standards better. Plenty of people can talk about how IE contributed XHR and AJAX. Another example is that "box-sizing: border-box" you see littered throughout CSS these days is "Hey, use the modern version of the classic IE way because it is easier to math." The point of the "Open Web" is not that "mistakes shouldn't happen and standards should be implemented in lockstep", it's that anyone can and should implement the standards and when the implementations don't agree we use that to make the standards better! Chrome owes a legacy to IE, and "bad experiences in the past" don't outweigh the benefit to the Open Web today by not interfering with users that choose to use Edge regardless of whether or not that's simply because it is Windows' default browser.
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Is it? The complaint at the time was the number of websites that outright blocked non-IE browsers rather than just letting the non-IE browsers try their best to render the pages, closing the web. Just because the tables are now turned it's appropriate for Google to break the open web? It seems evil from the standpoint of trying to support an open web (the arguments are the same now as they were back then), and it see…
> Not to mention if you were going to do it based on standards support and caniuse.com statistics, it's Safari now that is the one that lags behind. It is? http://caniuse.com/#compare=edge+14,firefox+50,chrome+54,saf... Skimming it, Safari seems to do a bit better than Edge if you just count boxes; at any rate it's not significantly worse.
More specifically, I meant iOS Safari, which seems to lag wildly behind Desktop Safari. Plus, iOS Safari has a much bigger userbase than Desktop Safari, which you see in the "Usage Relative" views on caniuse.com.
That said, it was also a dumb joke. :) I do not recommend adding banners saying "This site is not supported on iOS Safari". Imagine how many users you would anger doing that.
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Are you using chrome? It looks pretty dumb in firefox. It looks like this. http://imgur.com/IT7x83h
Looks the same in Chrome.
Whoever downvoted you is apparently thinking that it not being broken on his Linux Chrome means you're wrong. Well, I also run Linux, and on Chrome it's just as broken for me as well:
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#259Looks great in Chrome, completely broken in Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/XRMgcHp.png .
This issue should now be resolved. Thanks for the report.
Don't hesitate to add issues to https://www.github.com/google/fonts/issues if you see any other strangeness.
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#260"Your browser is not currently supported. Google Fonts works best on Chrome, Firefox, or Safari." Google still treating Edge users like trash, I see[0]. Microsoft Edge works fine for the vast majority of websites, and a block like this telling you to get a different browser is incredibly painful. If you tell me I need a different browser, I'm going to find a different company or website to do business with. [0]Gmail…
We fixed our Edge bugs, and removed the block. If you see anything strange don't hesitate to report them at https://www.github.com/google/fonts/issues.