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I think it's often a mistake to insist on a third-party font if an environment-/OS-native font family does a good enough job already - it's just more data trans
by c0l0 4y ago
I think it's often a mistake to insist on a third-party font if an environment-/OS-native font family does a good enough job already - it's just more data transferred, text often "jumping" around when the font data has finally been processed and is ready to render, and (often, in real-world use) data needlessly exfiltrated to some font-hosting CDN operator.
The only third-party font I'd consider using (for reasons of superior accessibility, not style) on websites and the like is the [Atkinson Hyperlegible Font](https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont), which is free to use and redistribute.
- carlosjobim 4y agoSelf-hosted fonts load extremely fast for the user if you are conservative with what you include. The fallback system font should be as similar as possible, so that text doesn't jump around.