New Fonts on macOS Catalina
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New Fonts on macOS Catalina
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Re: New Fonts on macOS Catalina
#2So, what’s the point of something being a “system font” if it isn’t used for display by anything in the OS itself? Does some first-party app use them, e.g. GarageBand’s first-party VSTs? Or are they just there to provide you options for styling your own text in Pages et al? (And, if so, why not make them visible in the Text Styles OS modal in such apps, with them zero-installed on first selection? They’re nigh-undiscoverable as it is.)
Re: New Fonts on macOS Catalina
#3So, what’s the point of something being a “system font” if it isn’t used for display by anything in the OS itself? Does some first-party app use them, e.g. GarageBand’s first-party VSTs? Or are they just there to provide you options for styling your own text in Pages et al? (And, if so, why not make them visible in the Text Styles OS modal in such apps, with them zero-installed on first selection? They’re nigh-undisc…
I recently had Safari offer to download a font for me so I could view a webpage. Perhaps that’s why they exist?
Re: New Fonts on macOS Catalina
#4So, what’s the point of something being a “system font” if it isn’t used for display by anything in the OS itself? Does some first-party app use them, e.g. GarageBand’s first-party VSTs? Or are they just there to provide you options for styling your own text in Pages et al? (And, if so, why not make them visible in the Text Styles OS modal in such apps, with them zero-installed on first selection? They’re nigh-undisc…
Proxima Nova is very common on websites so from that perspective it makes sense to bundle it.
Re: New Fonts on macOS Catalina
#5So, what’s the point of something being a “system font” if it isn’t used for display by anything in the OS itself? Does some first-party app use them, e.g. GarageBand’s first-party VSTs? Or are they just there to provide you options for styling your own text in Pages et al? (And, if so, why not make them visible in the Text Styles OS modal in such apps, with them zero-installed on first selection? They’re nigh-undisc…
Proxima Nova is very common on websites so from that perspective it makes sense to bundle it.
If a website declares a CSS @font-face rule that defines font-family foo, and then later uses `font-family: foo` in a style; and foo is also the name of a system font-family; do browsers then skip the @font-face "version" of the font and use the system one instead? Hopefully not bothering to even download the web font?
I've never run into this case, despite using web fonts a couple of times, because I don't think I've ever seen anyone attempting to use a font that's a system font of an OS as a web font.
But that seems like the main use-case here: knowing that at least macOS ships with Proxima Nova, you'd declare a dependency on the Google Fonts copy of Proxima Nova as a polyfill of sorts; and then the OSes that have it would use their version instead of needing to pull it from Google.
Re: New Fonts on macOS Catalina
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Proxima Nova is very common on websites so from that perspective it makes sense to bundle it.
If a website declares a CSS @font-face rule that defines font-family foo, and then later uses `font-family: foo` in a style; and foo is also the name of a system font-family; do browsers then skip the @font-face "version" of the font and use the system one instead? Hopefully not bothering to even download the web font? I've never run into this case, despite using web fonts a couple of times, because I don't think I'v…
There’s a local function for @font-face that allows you to link a webfont to a locally installed font and it will indeed skip the download if it can find it.
Re: New Fonts on macOS Catalina
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
If a website declares a CSS @font-face rule that defines font-family foo, and then later uses `font-family: foo` in a style; and foo is also the name of a system font-family; do browsers then skip the @font-face "version" of the font and use the system one instead? Hopefully not bothering to even download the web font? I've never run into this case, despite using web fonts a couple of times, because I don't think I'v…
There’s a local function for @font-face that allows you to link a webfont to a locally installed font and it will indeed skip the download if it can find it.
Re: New Fonts on macOS Catalina
#8Is there something regional about this? While I do have a bunch of fonts I can download, Proxima Nova is not in the list.
Re: New Fonts on macOS Catalina
#9Why do these fonts have to be hidden in there, never to be seen by a high percentage of users? I'd imagine a cleverer UI would be to have them available in a text editor's font chooser, but with some sort of indication that the font will be downloaded if you choose to use it.
Although obviously, then, people who are somewhere without internet connection will complain about not being able to use many fonts...
Re: New Fonts on macOS Catalina
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
If a website declares a CSS @font-face rule that defines font-family foo, and then later uses `font-family: foo` in a style; and foo is also the name of a system font-family; do browsers then skip the @font-face "version" of the font and use the system one instead? Hopefully not bothering to even download the web font? I've never run into this case, despite using web fonts a couple of times, because I don't think I'v…
There’s a local function for @font-face that allows you to link a webfont to a locally installed font and it will indeed skip the download if it can find it.
Thank you!!! Learnt something today.