#dev 2020-11-25

2020-11-25 UTC
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mayakate[m] Originally I wanted to just use system fonts for my site because I remembered having a lot of fun with different kerning nonsense to distinguish
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mayakate[m] different heading levels. But then it ended up needing the vibe of a serif for the body text so I went with a Goudy Old Style
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sebbu and then you discover you need to distribute your font in 5 or 6 different formats, because depending which browser (or OS!) your guests use they won't support the sames ones
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sebbu (especially if you do both web and desktop/console app)
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Zegnat I find that it is often completely fine not to have the same font available for every software combination that browses the web
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sebbu that's an excuse of lazyness (tm)
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sebbu ideally, i'ld take screenshots and verify the result is identical for a same resolution (modulo status bar & whatnot)
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sebbu (in practice, i'm lazy too)
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Zegnat http://dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com
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Zegnat Oldie but goodie
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petermolnar isn't woff2 sort of enough these days?
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sebbu magick compare -metric AE screen1.png screen2.png null: 2>&1
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petermolnar https://caniuse.com/?search=woff2
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sebbu petermolnar, it is for the web, but not for desktop apps
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sebbu (except electron)
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petermolnar I firmly believe desktop app should stick to os native fonts
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sebbu for example, i couldn't add color emoji in my irc client because it's based on gtk, which uses cairo, which uses the OS font, which don't support color fonts properly
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sebbu that's the point, i wanted to add it as native font
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sebbu but couldn't
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petermolnar I mean the ones available by design
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petermolnar preinstalled, one might say
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sebbu https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji#using-notocoloremoji
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Loqi [googlefonts] noto-emoji: Noto Emoji fonts
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sebbu https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/issues/43
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Loqi [vandasian] #43 NotoColorEmoji.ttf not a valid font in Windows
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[jeremycherfas] Goudy Old Style is my preferred serif font.
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sebbu the issue was that microsoft badly implemented the part of the standard it supports
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sebbu (they implemented a draft, while the standard had less requirements)
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@tabatkins ↩️ You're talking about https://www.w3.org/TR/micropub/#json-syntax, right? I still don't see how it's relevant. My use-case was sending arbitrary HTML to and from a Python service. Converting to the `["element name", {element:"attributes"}, "children", "more children"]` XML-in-JSON format worked well (twitter.com/_/status/1331727222705594368)
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