I started out wanting to ask a question along the lines of "How can I
set things up so that if a user has a font locally, it will be used, but
if not, download it as a webfont?", but that was all of a sudden
obvious: the usual method of setting up a font stack, e.g.,
font-family: preferred-local-font, web-font;
This does bring up questions that may be browser/platform dependent, and
may give me second thoughts about doing this:
1. In this sort of situation, is the webfont unconditionally downloaded,
or is it ignored unless/until actually needed?
2. If I use a character/characters that don't have glyphs defined in the
first font of a stack, will the next font in the stack (that does
have the glyph) be used for that character, or will some
client/system default font be used, or will I just see the symbol for
"I don't have that glyph"?
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