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Fonts don't render on Linux #1

Closed konklone closed 9 years ago

konklone commented 9 years ago

The site specifies Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, but on Linux I only get sans-serif, which isn't very flattering:

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Have you considered using some fonts from Google Fonts? You can also inline these fonts to avoid having to ping fonts.googleapis.com.

smileytech commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the feedback! We did consider using web fonts, but decided against it because the vast majority of our users use browsers that support Tahoma or Verdana, and we didn’t think it was worth the extra download requirement to use a web font.

konklone commented 9 years ago

@smileytech You can also self-host Google Fonts, which removes the third-party ping. If your host supports SPDY or HTTP/2 (it looks like usa.gov doesn't currently) then downloading the additional resources from your own host would be negligible latency.