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Re:Should you self-host Google Fonts? by e12e on Sunday February 23, 2020 @06:56AM (#22396443)
Png has poor screen reader support, though it can be amended via an alt tag, I suppose. [ed: but breaks copy and paste, which might be bad for an about page listing address and contact information - personally I'd much prefer fallback font to a png].

It's a shame there are no "bandwidth" queries in css, like there are @media queries - the client should be able to say - just content and essential downloads, please.

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Re:Should you self-host Google Fonts? by tunetheweb on Sunday February 23, 2020 @08:20AM (#22396714)
They’ve been proposed!: https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-5/#prefers-reduced-dat...

You can already do this with JavaScript now: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NetworkInfo... though as you can see from the bottom of that link, Browser support is limited at the moment (and experimental so may even be removed/changed!).

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