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I never understood why browsers don't ship with more fonts, especially Chrome.
by fludlight 6y ago
I never understood why browsers don't ship with more fonts, especially Chrome.
- berkes 6y agoI'd say that it could be done one step further, even: a package in, or part of, the OS, that simply installs the 100 (or ten, I don't know the usage curves) most common fonts and keeps them updated.
- dewey 6y agoIsn't that what's already happening in every OS for a very long time? The problem that web fonts are addressing is that you have the same font across all platforms, so if some OS ship with additional fonts we'd be in the same position as before: Not everyone will have this package as part of the OS and you have an inconsistent look again.
- mikolaj1024 6y agoGoogle prefers everyone to use their CDN - it means more statistics data for them.
- young_unixer 6y agoIt would pressure smaller browsers into shipping the same fonts. That's a good and a bad thing. It's good because we could stop caring about FOUC and friends, but it's bad because it would give Google even more power over the web.