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By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
Does anybody apart from designers actually care?
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> Google Web Fonts library preloaded in it so that's just called installing fonts! I think the idea of web fonts is so that new fonts could be added and a user doesn't have to do something local to the browser. And this feature costs privacy. If people really understood the implications of loss of privacy, they would not want it. However, most people don't, and would gladly swap privacy for features (and then in the…
Yes, but if you install the entire font library locally then you have all those fonts in your system font picker, which you may or may not want. You also have to continue checking for new fonts or have sites that use them break. Having an extension do this for you is easier. Also, there's no particular reason why webfonts need to cost privacy. The only reason to ever hotlink Google Fonts was to either... - Accelerate…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Google Web Fonts library preloaded in it so that's just called installing fonts! I think the idea of web fonts is so that new fonts could be added and a user doesn't have to do something local to the browser. And this feature costs privacy. If people really understood the implications of loss of privacy, they would not want it. However, most people don't, and would gladly swap privacy for features (and then in the…
Yes, but if you install the entire font library locally then you have all those fonts in your system font picker, which you may or may not want. You also have to continue checking for new fonts or have sites that use them break. Having an extension do this for you is easier. Also, there's no particular reason why webfonts need to cost privacy. The only reason to ever hotlink Google Fonts was to either... - Accelerate…
This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
iOS' Lockdown Mode blocks web fonts. Sad to see how many sites still use icon fonts instead of SVGs.
they do have the advantage of being easy to recolor even as an external resource. I personally don't use them and instead use SVGs and there's always the decision of whether to add a bunch of inline svgs, which you can do cool effects and even transitions on for hover effects or light/dark mode, or using external images, which are nicer in terms of separation of concerns, re-use without having to update multiple plac…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but if you install the entire font library locally then you have all those fonts in your system font picker, which you may or may not want. You also have to continue checking for new fonts or have sites that use them break. Having an extension do this for you is easier. Also, there's no particular reason why webfonts need to cost privacy. The only reason to ever hotlink Google Fonts was to either... - Accelerate…
and exactly how large of a download would be "download entire font library"? all that just to use one font? that's like downloading an entire JS library to use one thing from it if not worse.
This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
> provide the subtle design element that developers don't value Does anybody apart from designers actually care?
This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
A webpage is a bunch of text, if your webpage can't be read with something like "font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;" then you are doing it wrong.