Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous

Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous by robin_reala on Thursday June 09, 2022 @10:20AM (#31681495)

If you have bad designers then yes, that makes your life harder. But insisting on a custom font doesn’t make that person a bad designer if there’s a valid reason why including it would improve the users’ experiences.

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Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous by xigoi on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:02AM (#31682084)

In what context would a custom font improve the user's experience?

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Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous by robin_reala on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:11AM (#31682197)

- If the font is part of a brand identity that the user trusts (there’s a reason Times New Roman has Times in it).

- If the font has associations with a particular place or time that you want to imbue your system with.

- If you give the user themselves the ability to select a font that works best for them (for example a font focused on the dyslexia reading experience in an ereader).

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Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous by kwhitefoot on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:05AM (#31682133)

> if there’s a valid reason why including it would improve the users’ experiences.

Such as?

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Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous by marc_io on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:31PM (#31685724)

Displaying math equations or specific language characters.

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Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous by kwhitefoot on Thursday June 09, 2022 @05:59PM (#31687472)

Which is really quite rare when the page is non-technical and in English so why do so many pages insist on downloading fonts?

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Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous by marc_io on Thursday June 09, 2022 @06:07PM (#31687564)

Mostly marketing and branding: the desire for self-expression, to establish a visual identity and a feeling tone in the message.

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