https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55383
--- Comment #50 from Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> --- (In reply to Konstantin Preißer from comment #49) > I'd like to switch the font used for the Tomcat Website and Docs (currently > "Lucida Sans Unicode") to "Open Sans" [1] which is released by Google using > a Apache 2.0 Licence. This also means that the font can be displayed on > every platform like Windows, Mac and Linux. It's worth noting that the current CSS for font-family is just a suggestion to the browser. The font you get depends very heavily on the environment where the pages are being viewed. > I plan to add the Font files (.woff) (the variant which contains only the > Latin characters) directly instead of using a CSS link to Google, so that > the Site and the Docs (which may be viewed offline) don't depend on external > Google resources. I'm not a huge fan of WOFF for a few reasons: 1. It requires yet another file to download, and font files tend to be big (I couldn't find a download link so I don't know the exact size of the Open Sans font). 2. Most browsers I've seen tend to render the page as quickly as possible, and then apply the custom-font afterward, which results in a weird post-adjustment of the font, even for fonts that are already downloaded. I haven't done extensive testing recently, so it's possible that this is no longer an issue. 3. Ultimately, the font choice is up to the browser, anyway, so you can't really "force" them to use Open Sans. Given the above, why bother with a change at all? I know designers get all hot and bothered by things like kerning, serif angles, etc. but I'm not sure that adding another font-choice here really adds anything. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
