On 6/5/15 3:07 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
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.
These are made by Google and are optimized for the Web. On
https://www.google.com/fonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Roboto it seems
like downloading a few of them keeps that gauge in the green region.
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
Not sure what I'm looking at, but point taken. Perhaps I should try that
on the main site.
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.
Well yah but our interior design has grown long in the tooth. Time for a
change. I'll ask a trusted lieutenant (myself) to try Roboto and Roboto
Mono on the site.
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
Alrighty.
Andrei
