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Stop using externally-hosted fonts, too! It's 2020. I don't visit websites to marvel at their beauty; I just want to read the article. So I'm not going to compr

Stop using externally-hosted fonts, too! It's 2020. I don't visit websites to marvel at their beauty; I just want to read the article. So I'm not going to compromise my privacy just to read seven or eight paragraphs of text in Myriad instead of Helvetica.

smt88 6y ago
> So I'm not going to compromise my privacy just to read seven or eight paragraphs of text in Myriad instead of Helvetica. uBlock Origin allows specifically blocking external fonts. > I don't visit websites to marvel at their beauty Using the right font is rarely about beauty. Yes, it's often aesthetically pleasing. But good fonts can have lots of practical effects for people, especially those who are disabled or aging. It's fine for you not to care about fonts and to block them, and it's fine for people to host fonts themselves (if the license allows), but it's misinformed to complain that all non-standard fonts are a meaningless aesthetic contrivance.
- uniqueid 6y ago
  The alternative to "link to custom fonts on a third-party server" isn't "don't use custom fonts" though, it's "host them on your own server". In any event, the point about accessibility is wrong because it's more common for designers to use custom fonts that are harder to read than easier.
anaganisk 6y ago
You're not everyone's typical customer. Stop generalising personal preferences
- rini17 6y ago
  He is not generalising, you are. Why is that some personal preferences are met with such hostility here (unless carefully wrapped with disclaimers that it's meant only personal)? I am running my own recursive DNS resolver and some sites pull crap from such a sheer variety of sources that before it all gets cached, the load times remind me of dialup 20 years ago.
  - kkarakk 6y ago
    when i visit a site and it has an ugly font nowadays i just click away or use a browser extension that prettifies the content(and erases any formatting the author may have intended) if you're ok with that then by all means, use some ugly font. ime most authors aren't though...
    - uniqueid 6y ago
      Whichever font a designer uses, it won't look any worse if they store it on their own server instead of link to it on fontawesome.com or fonts.google.com
  - anaganisk 6y ago
    If you have problem with my website font, feel free to do whatever in your power or put it on screen reader mode and get it done with, why should I change my font to impress you? That's what I dont like when people stress their personal preference here.
  - anaganisk 6y ago
    Also he exactly said Please stop using external fonts in 2020. I dont know how that wasn't aggressive.
benhurmarcel 6y ago
I just host the font files with my website. This tool helps with that: https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts/ https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts/
- uniqueid 6y ago
  Good, host them on your own server. It's one point of failure fewer, anyways!

smt88 6y ago

> So I'm not going to compromise my privacy just to read seven or eight paragraphs of text in Myriad instead of Helvetica. uBlock Origin allows specifically blocking external fonts. > I don't visit websites to marvel at their beauty Using the right font is rarely about beauty. Yes, it's often aesthetically pleasing. But good fonts can have lots of practical effects for people, especially those who are disabled or aging. It's fine for you not to care about fonts and to block them, and it's fine for people to host fonts themselves (if the license allows), but it's misinformed to complain that all non-standard fonts are a meaningless aesthetic contrivance.

uniqueid 6y ago
The alternative to "link to custom fonts on a third-party server" isn't "don't use custom fonts" though, it's "host them on your own server". In any event, the point about accessibility is wrong because it's more common for designers to use custom fonts that are harder to read than easier.

anaganisk 6y ago

You're not everyone's typical customer. Stop generalising personal preferences

rini17 6y ago
He is not generalising, you are. Why is that some personal preferences are met with such hostility here (unless carefully wrapped with disclaimers that it's meant only personal)? I am running my own recursive DNS resolver and some sites pull crap from such a sheer variety of sources that before it all gets cached, the load times remind me of dialup 20 years ago.
- kkarakk 6y ago
  when i visit a site and it has an ugly font nowadays i just click away or use a browser extension that prettifies the content(and erases any formatting the author may have intended) if you're ok with that then by all means, use some ugly font. ime most authors aren't though...
  - uniqueid 6y ago
    Whichever font a designer uses, it won't look any worse if they store it on their own server instead of link to it on fontawesome.com or fonts.google.com
- anaganisk 6y ago
  If you have problem with my website font, feel free to do whatever in your power or put it on screen reader mode and get it done with, why should I change my font to impress you? That's what I dont like when people stress their personal preference here.
- anaganisk 6y ago
  Also he exactly said Please stop using external fonts in 2020. I dont know how that wasn't aggressive.

benhurmarcel 6y ago

I just host the font files with my website. This tool helps with that: https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts/ https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts/

uniqueid 6y ago
Good, host them on your own server. It's one point of failure fewer, anyways!