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Fonts are one of the dimensions of design. If you've ever enjoyed, for example, one of Edward Tufte's books on visualisation ("The quantitative display of data"
by matt4077 9y ago
Fonts are one of the dimensions of design. If you've ever enjoyed, for example, one of Edward Tufte's books on visualisation ("The quantitative display of data" etc), part of their appeal as excellently crafted books stems from the choice of fonts. The same happens on the web. See, for example The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com https://www.newyorker.com.
Obviously everyone is free to block fonts, just like you can block all images or use a text-only browser etc. But to categorically deny even the possibility that well-chosen fonts can enhance the experience for some people seems disingenuous.
- mrob 9y agoThe most legible font is the font you're most used to. If I let designers chose fonts for me then I'll have to read lots of different fonts, instead of just my own favorite. It can only harm my enjoyment of the web.
- omg_ketchup 9y agoBut blocking icon fonts makes the web less usable for you.
- ordu 9y agoAs NoScript does. Or Ghostery. It is problems of web, not mine. I could find another site, if some one does not work properly.
- ordu 9y agoAs for me speed is much more important that any pretty look. I would rather read internet from terminal with monospaced fonts, if it would add speed and do not harm functionality. But there are no browsers that can do it without losing web-sites functionality -- js, a tons of interaction of modern web needs a very complex and slooow tools to render. Maybe it is just me, but I believe that for other users speed is also matters.