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Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts

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Re: Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts

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Post by lmm »

dualogy wrote: post #119
kalid wrote: post #99

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Hah, I just finished a flat redesign from mid-2000s skeuomorphic interface. Redoing the logo / favicons is that last thing...

Too bad you didn't have a legacy "flat design" from the early 90s still at hand, saves time when changing trends every 10-15 years..

That's how you can tell flat isn't just a trend - it's going back to what worked, after years of doing rounded corners and drop shadows because we can and never stopping to wonder whether we should. There's a lost decade in web design, but hopefully we're now starting to recover from it.

Re: Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts

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Post by timlyo »

kalid wrote: post #90
koliber wrote: post #35

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By renaming the CSS file from `font-awesome.min.css` to `fa.min.css` they could save 660GB a day: 73,000,000 sites * 1000 visitors * 10 bytes / 1024^3

A calculator for you, because I'm in pitch-my-side-project mode ;) https://instacalc.com/50060

On A serious note about the UI though, that red/green colour is awful for colourblind people. Didn't even realise there were two colours at first.

Re: Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts

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Post by gurkendoktor »

adrianN wrote: post #113
Spooky23 wrote: post #32

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Exactly, but I would take it further... It solves a problem that people other than web designers care very little about, but costs me money and creates a slew of other problems... Personally, I wish it was easy to just turn off!

about:config browser.display.use_document_fonts=0

That will only work once designers start using SVG instead of icon fonts.

I've been blocking web fonts for a while, and it feels like I have to whitelist one site out of three because it depends on icon fonts.

Re: Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts

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Post by gurkendoktor »

matt4077 wrote: post #46
Spooky23 wrote: post #32

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Exactly, but I would take it further... It solves a problem that people other than web designers care very little about, but costs me money and creates a slew of other problems... Personally, I wish it was easy to just turn off!

Fonts are a pretty important factor in design. Most people may not explicitly notice it, but it certainly affects the impression they get from a website. You could compare it with http/2: If you do a survey, you won't find many people even knowing it. That doesn't mean it's useless to them.

This is an interesting comparison because web fonts have the opposite effect of HTTP/2: They introduce a huge delay between clicking a link and being allowed to actually read anything.

On 3G or shaky Wi-Fi, I've regularly given up on browser tabs because all I see is an empty page, even after half a minute of loading and when most images have finished downloading. (Maybe other browsers are better than Safari, but I won't switch just to see prettier fonts.)

Re: Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts

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Post by kasparsklavins »

timlyo wrote: post #143
kalid wrote: post #90

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A calculator for you, because I'm in pitch-my-side-project mode ;) https://instacalc.com/50060

On A serious note about the UI though, that red/green colour is awful for colourblind people. Didn't even realise there were two colours at first.

I'm sure you mean - those are two different colours. If not, oh boy do I have news for you.

Re: Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts

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Post by fukusa »

kalleboo wrote: post #139
sorahn wrote: post #126

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skip the `min` for production completely. use `fa.css` and if you want the expanded one for development, then you could have `fa.[max|debug|whatever].css`

Do you even need the ".css"? Just set the proper mime type in the server configuration

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Re: Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts

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Post by hoschicz »

timlyo wrote: post #143
kalid wrote: post #90

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A calculator for you, because I'm in pitch-my-side-project mode ;) https://instacalc.com/50060

On A serious note about the UI though, that red/green colour is awful for colourblind people. Didn't even realise there were two colours at first.

How would you work around this? Do browsers have a colorblind mode/header/whatever? Or should we just never use red/green combination?

Re: Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts

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Post by kalid »

therein wrote: post #140
dcousens wrote: post #135

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If you moved your scripts to 1st party, uMatrix wouldn't block it

Writing this so that the owner of the site knows it affects more than one person.

Thanks for the feedback, I should test with that. I'm curious whether/if CDNs like google-hosted libraries are normally blocked.

Re: Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts

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Post by kalid »

Avshalom wrote: post #133
kalid wrote: post #125

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Hah, yes, I'm that bad mamma jamma.

seriously, been using it for years, one of my favorite tools P.S. I'm sure you've looked into it but any plans for graphing capabilities?

It's awesome to hear when it's been a long-standing tool in the utility belt. The original version had charts/graphs (simple pie charts, etc.) which I need to bring back, were you considering more Wolfram-Alpha style 3d plots?
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