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These custom fonts that people use are so unnecessary... Just let me use my browsers' default!
by magamig 5y ago
These custom fonts that people use are so unnecessary... Just let me use my browsers' default!
- slater 5y agoET Book, the font used on the page, is free and open-source: https://edwardtufte.github.io/et-book/ https://edwardtufte.github.io/et-book/ Modern browsers also have preferences to switch off web fonts.
- divbzero 5y agoThe main downside of custom web fonts isn’t the licensing but having to download those fonts to render the page. There are ways to optimize font loading [1] but it can still lead to delay in rendering or font swaps. It looks like ET-Tufte has already considered and tried to mitigate this downside. [2] [1]: https://web.dev/optimize-webfont-loading/ https://web.dev/optimize-webfont-loading/ [2]: https://et-jekyll.netlify.app/et-jekyll-theme/#performance https://et-jekyll.netlify.app/et-jekyll-theme/#performance
- mrunseen 5y agoLicensing is a issue[0] in commercial fonts, though. [0]https://twitter.com/typographica/status/1395769805542547461?s=20 https://twitter.com/typographica/status/1395769805542547461?...
- sergiomattei 5y agoI think it’s beautiful. It’s all subjective and they strived to add beautiful typography to this theme.
- JustFinishedBSG 5y ago> Just let me use my browsers' default! Just disable fonts in the browser settings then.
- mrunseen 5y agoIt is only natural to include a font which was commissioned by original author.