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Anyone know what it was previously? I'm writing a user stylesheet to change it back.
font-family: Helvetica, arial, nimbussansl, liberationsans, freesans, clean, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;
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Then it breaks. I can deal with that -- there aren't very many sites that decide to abuse fonts that way, in any case. And who knows, maybe one day SVG will actually reliably render correctly in browsers, and people will use images when they want to display images
The problem isnt so much SVG rendering, its that you can grab an icon font with 400 icons that look great, its easy to add them to places beside text, like in menus or on buttons. You can use SVG, but there is no CDN-hosted SVG sprite with 400 icons to replace things like FontAwesome or Ionicons, so you would have to find all the SVGs you wanted. Then you have the challenge of getting them the right size and position…
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The problem isnt so much SVG rendering, its that you can grab an icon font with 400 icons that look great, its easy to add them to places beside text, like in menus or on buttons. You can use SVG, but there is no CDN-hosted SVG sprite with 400 icons to replace things like FontAwesome or Ionicons, so you would have to find all the SVGs you wanted. Then you have the challenge of getting them the right size and position…
You mean like this: https://css-tricks.com/svg-sprites-use-better-icon-fonts/ ?
Goddamn, I hate Roboto, it is way too fat by default.
The Bold Roboto [1] just looks awful on my machine. Arial [2] looked much better, and if they want to use the system font, Ubuntu [3] also looks much better. [1] http://i.imgur.com/zfThWXP.png [2] http://i.imgur.com/qngKbGq.png [3] http://i.imgur.com/77vDhCd.png
Way too wide!
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One of the most useful options in Firefox is the checkbox "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"[1], also available as browser.display.use_document_fonts in about:config. When this is unchecked, Firefox will ignore all fonts specified by web pages and just use the much-more-likely-to-be-reasonable choice of default font you have made; and you can then disable web fonts, which will mak…
What happens when sites are using font's for images?
Goddamn, I hate Roboto, it is way too fat by default.
The Bold Roboto [1] just looks awful on my machine. Arial [2] looked much better, and if they want to use the system font, Ubuntu [3] also looks much better. [1] http://i.imgur.com/zfThWXP.png [2] http://i.imgur.com/qngKbGq.png [3] http://i.imgur.com/77vDhCd.png