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1. David Mynors (idmyn@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 12-May-2018 06:20:28 EDT David Mynors

   Somebody mentioned here recently that Google has a scary grip over the technologies underlying how we build/use the internet and mentioned Google Fonts (among other things). This got me a little spooked but also made me more conscious of how I use fonts and the fonts I should be using/supporting.

   Can anybody link me to good resources for how I should be setting up fonts for web, and just nice, pleasing (#FOSS?) fonts I can use for personal computing?

   #fonts #typeface #OpenSource

   1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 12-May-2018 07:06:12 EDT iona 🐝

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      @idmyn I use the (Google) Noto fonts as my main UI fonts. They're the default on KDE and available in the Debian repositories - they are genuinely free fonts.

      The main issue with Google Fonts isn't the fonts themselves, it's the fact that they come from Google servers, meaning yet another connection to Google on random websites, and yet another opportunity for them to track people around the web.

      I still use Google Web Fonts on my site but I'd like to find an alternative to that.

   2. Oneesan succubus (lain@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Saturday, 12-May-2018 11:25:23 EDT Oneesan succubus

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      @idmyn Google's most popular font (noto) is a free license. If you set up a website you can just use "sans" so the font that the user set is used.