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Re:58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere by jdmichal on Monday April 08, 2019 @02:17PM (#19607682)
I'm with you on fonts. So much so that my first Firefox customization on any computer is locking down the font. Every webpage gets the same font, because I like that font and find it readable and I don't see why I should have to look at anything else.

Content :: Fonts and Colors :: Advanced :: Allow pages to choose their own fonts

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Re:58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere by Grollicus on Monday April 08, 2019 @03:41PM (#19608368)
I'd like to use this too. Currently, my adblocker is blocking fonts, and fontawesome is a nightmare because icons everywhere are missing. How do you handle that?
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Re:58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere by jdmichal on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:00PM (#19608510)
Sadly, I don't. This breaks a few sites terribly, as I end up with random characters instead of whatever the "awesome" icon was supposed to be. Usually it's obvious enough from context what the icon should have been, and it just looks ugly.
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Re:58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere by Darkenetor on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @04:56AM (#19612898)
Like this, unfortunately: https://gitlab.com/Darkenetor/userstyles-userscripts/tree/ma...

Firefox used to have an optional exception for icon fonts on the "allow custom fonts" switch which I found very sufficient. Not sure when it was removed or why, but that was a big loss.

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Re:58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere by layoutIfNeeded on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:45PM (#19608841)
Keep sending them emails until they change it to SVG. Fonts are not supposed to be (ab)used like this.
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Re:58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere by SquareWheel on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @12:26AM (#19611792)
It's the user breaking the convention in this case. They're capable of fixing the page if they want to. Spamming the author with emails would simply be harassment.
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Re:58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere by layoutIfNeeded on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @04:06AM (#19612680)
ActiveX controls used to be conventional too.

This dingbat crap also hinders accessibility, as you can’t specify alt text like you could for images.

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Re:58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @08:01AM (#19613709)
Well, icons are not intuitive anyway, so it probably doesn't make difference :)
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