Redesigned Google Fonts website
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Redesigned Google Fonts website
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#2Google fonts is just another way for Google to track users.
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#3Google fonts is just another way for Google to track users.
Indeed, but there are ways around that. Check out fontsource (e.g. `npm install @fontsource-variable/roboto-flex`) to add fonts as a locally hosted dependency.
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#4Google fonts is just another way for Google to track users.
explain? are you talking about "if you use them on the web, they track"? If I install the packages on my linux distro, that doesn't get tracked does it? they're just fonts? or do they keep pulling things down?
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#6So how do I find fonts that have 0s with a dot in the middle?
> filters are now easier to reach and sectioned out meaningfully
"Technology" is not a meaningful section, and in general having section taking more space than its content of just a single item doesn't help
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#7Google fonts is just another way for Google to track users.
explain? are you talking about "if you use them on the web, they track"? If I install the packages on my linux distro, that doesn't get tracked does it? they're just fonts? or do they keep pulling things down?
linux package is downloaded once or every upgrade by generic http client, not that frequent vs when loading lot of different pages which use Google Fonts and gives some info from browser
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#8Google fonts is just another way for Google to track users.
If you use their cdn instead of putting them on your own server sure. There is an Austrian ruling that this is a violation of the GDPR, so you might not wanna do it anyways.
For the ultra paranoid font files are to be avoided because fonts raise the complexity and thus the attack surface — I can't imagine an attacker couldn't use a malicous font or a zero-day in the font rendering engine to exploit a client.
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#9These days, I'm always scared when I hear a product I use is getting an upgrade.
Usually it means large teams of designers have to be seen doing something and are constantly redesigning things and inventing paradigm no one asked about.
In this case though, the new design is a step forward. I always found the previous version significantly worse than the original. Those panels that tease you about what you have like a shopping cart was annoying. It seems now it's more of a conscious side panel I can dismiss and nail to the side(?)
I like swipping down like crazy and instantly seeing fonts I've never seen before. It's fast, responsive and fun!
The new navigation is definitely better.
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#10Google fonts is just another way for Google to track users.
Not if you download the zip and host it yourself - which you can do