Which font does the forum use for
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- Atreides
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Which font does the forum use for
Which font does the forum use for all the little buttons/icons? I know it's something from google's font server, I'd like to try and figure out if I can install that particular font on my PC.
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Re: Which font does the forum use for
It's FontAwesome.
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Re: Which font does the forum use for
Thanks! I actually started digging after I posted that and downloaded/installed whatever Debian had of google fonts plus later FontAwesome (found I could see it in the HTML after all : ) and even Montaga (which is apparently used for the text here). Lotsa fun.
Turns out though that I had Ublock Origin setup wrong. (I just started using it) Block "remote" fonts didn't mean third party fonts only. It included first party fonts (which TBH I didn't even think of). A nice custom filter I found for UBO lets me block only 3rd party fonts. And the forum actually doesn't use those. (Wild cheering)
So, I was wrong when I wrote that the fonts are coming from a google server. The forum DOES (try to) connect to fonts.googleapis.com so that was a very tiny error on my part. : ) Peculiar but since UBO blocks it anyways it doesn't matter much.
Man, I avoided UBO for a long time thinking it was "just an ad blocker". It's a wicked power user tool very much like the classic NoScript. (which I've used for 20 or so years now... I still have an old one installed in Firefox 1.5 under Win95 on my P166 from 1997) Hmmm I might as well stop rambling, no one's read this far anyways... : )
Turns out though that I had Ublock Origin setup wrong. (I just started using it) Block "remote" fonts didn't mean third party fonts only. It included first party fonts (which TBH I didn't even think of). A nice custom filter I found for UBO lets me block only 3rd party fonts. And the forum actually doesn't use those. (Wild cheering)
So, I was wrong when I wrote that the fonts are coming from a google server. The forum DOES (try to) connect to fonts.googleapis.com so that was a very tiny error on my part. : ) Peculiar but since UBO blocks it anyways it doesn't matter much.
Man, I avoided UBO for a long time thinking it was "just an ad blocker". It's a wicked power user tool very much like the classic NoScript. (which I've used for 20 or so years now... I still have an old one installed in Firefox 1.5 under Win95 on my P166 from 1997) Hmmm I might as well stop rambling, no one's read this far anyways... : )
Re: Which font does the forum use for
I did, but don't ask me why.
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