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> they could use SVG or Canvas They could but then it would be less accessible for screen readers or bots that want to scrape text from a web page for indexing

> they could use SVG or Canvas They could but then it would be less accessible for screen readers or bots that want to scrape text from a web page for indexing or anything else. Your user agent can also determine if rendering those "ugly 3D titles" is the right thing to do or not, so you could have a plugin that stops them from being rendered. > there should be more browsers and operating systems than the ones Google makes These fonts work fine in Firefox.

bogwog 4y ago
> They could but then it would be less accessible for screen readers or bots that want to scrape text from a web page for indexing or anything else. Screen readers can read SVG, and ARIA exists for adding accessibility to things like Canvas or WebGL (see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...). > These fonts work fine in Firefox. They in fact do not work at all in Firefox (or any other browser besides Chrome/Edge). If you go to fonts.google.com, they work because that page uses a custom renderer for them. See the duck demo here (need to scroll down): https://developers.googleblog.com/2022/09/updates-to-emoji-new-characters-animation-colors-and-more.html https://developers.googleblog.com/2022/09/updates-to-emoji-n... The duck is invisible on Safari on my iPhone and in Firefox (104.0.1) on my desktop
- magicalist 4y ago
  > They in fact do not work at all in Firefox as noted by jfk13 below, you have to enable `gfx.font_rendering.colr_v1.enabled` in about:config