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If google embedded the top fonts in the browser this wouldn’t be an issue. I don’t understand why the font selection in browsers is so limited.
Loading fonts is tracking and data collection. It's what Google does. If they build the fonts into the browser, then tracking/data collections calls are not made.
Wow, if you used Google Cloud CDN to serve up that data, it would cost you more than $1 Billion USD.
Yeah, 36 trillion requests slowing down the loading of websites. Way, unnecessarily, overused.
If google embedded the top fonts in the browser this wouldn’t be an issue. I don’t understand why the font selection in browsers is so limited.
I cringe when I think about how many petabytes of jQuery has been sent over the wire over the years.
It looks like its lumping Android in with desktop linux. Since they are differentiating platforms by the user agent that seems like an easy thing to fix?
It looks like its lumping Android in with desktop linux. Since they are differentiating platforms by the user agent that seems like an easy thing to fix?
Yeah, 36 trillion requests slowing down the loading of websites. Way, unnecessarily, overused.
If google embedded the top fonts in the browser this wouldn’t be an issue. I don’t understand why the font selection in browsers is so limited.
Yeah, 36 trillion requests slowing down the loading of websites. Way, unnecessarily, overused.
If google embedded the top fonts in the browser this wouldn’t be an issue. I don’t understand why the font selection in browsers is so limited.
The challenge is that to ensure consistency, you need to use the "lowest common denominator" of fonts that are installed by default across all operating systems. Which leaves you with (like) Arial, Times, Courier, Verdana, Georgia, Palatino, and (hahahaha) Comic Sans.
The real answer here is why web designers use Google Fonts as opposed to embedding their own fonts. To which the answer is: it's so much easier. (Tech, licensing, formats, compatibility, etc.)
Yeah, 36 trillion requests slowing down the loading of websites. Way, unnecessarily, overused.
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If google embedded the top fonts in the browser this wouldn’t be an issue. I don’t understand why the font selection in browsers is so limited.
Font selection in browsers isn't limited. Browsers don't have embedded fonts—they rely on whatever fonts are installed in the operating system. The challenge is that to ensure consistency, you need to use the "lowest common denominator" of fonts that are installed by default across all operating systems . Which leaves you with (like) Arial, Times, Courier, Verdana, Georgia, Palatino, and (hahahaha) Comic Sans. The re…
Instead we're restricted to only a few fonts that actually have decent cross platform support.