On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 21:46:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Just found these on reddit:
https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto
https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto+Mono
I'm thinking to use them instead of Verdana and Lucida Mono
respectively.
1. Web fonts come with cost of increased page load time and
resource utilization.
2. You can't use a custom (web) font for any content which you
can't ensure contains only glyphs supported by the font. Which
implies that you cannot use it for user-submitted content (forum
and wiki), unless you want some glyphs to be in a different font.
Which implies that if we do use a different font for the website,
the forum may need to use a different, standard font.
Examples:
http://dump.thecybershadow.net/2ef53dfe00fc112e3418913348bebdf0/00000173.png
http://dump.thecybershadow.net/686026fbe38bab61e21631f6fb1f6f64/00000174.png
3. Just because a font looks bad on your machine, doesn't mean it
looks as bad on others. (Conversely, just because a web font
looks good on your machine, doesn't mean it'll look as good on
others.) Fonts are hard.
I'm not sure there is a problem that needs to be fixed here,
especially considering the caveats. In fact:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/995
