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Because font choice can communicate a lot. Font choice can establish a brand, font choice can create a mood. Web fonts are better than the stuff people did to
by egypturnash 10y ago
Because font choice can communicate a lot. Font choice can establish a brand, font choice can create a mood.
Web fonts are better than the stuff people did to do this in the old days. Crazy abominations like siFR [1] or rendering out a gif of your text and using that instead of just delivering some ASCII text that screenreaders can deal with? Web fonts aren't perfect, especially on slow connections, but they're the least horrible solution we have for people who would like to control the finer aesthetic details of how their sites look.
[1] https://mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr https://mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr
- phkahler 10y agoCome to think of it, browsers could have a mode where they use only installed fonts regardless of what a site says. This would be useful to the people on slow connections.
- NoGravitas 10y agoFirefox supports this. In Firefox on Android, it's visible in the settings (under "data saving"). Not sure if it's surfaced in desktop, or only in about:config.
- mcav 10y agoMost browsers support user stylesheets, either built-in (Firefox/Safari) or as an extension, which can accomplish this.