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Replacement Fonts

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added basic Google Fonts removal tutorial
== Fonts ==
<span class="problem">The Font Fonts are an important part of the style of a website. Google has cynically made it incredibly easy to utilise any of a huge number of fonts on websites, but it comes with a price: what they get in exchange for this, is the ability to track your visitors. It is therefore important to the shape privacy of the letter appearing your visitors to ensure that you do not use Google fonts in the your website. A web developer designing There are two ways to avoid this. If using specific fonts is a priority, the pages, tried best way to do this is to pick simply host the best based fonts on your own server, so that no third-parties receive data about your visitors through your fonts. Since this solution requires some level of comfort in handling your website’s files, if you are comfortable with having some users fall back on style default web fonts, then you can simply “font stack,” and readabilityrely on the user’s own system fonts to do the job. Our devices have many </span> == Removing Google Fonts ==<h3 class="title entry removal-1">Self-hosting fonts</h3><span class="intro"> To remove Google Fonts from your website and self-host instead, but you will need to upload the fonts you want to use to your server. Some services for selecting and downloading or purchasing fonts are listed below. You will then enter the CSS and HTML files of your pages and search for all references to font-face or font-family and remove them. You will then replace these references with a web developerdirect link to your self-hosted font. Typically, when you download fonts to use for your website, you will receive a lots folder of several variations of timethe font – this allows the font to be rendered in various formats and browsers. You may receive .eot, .woff, and .ttf files. Once you upload these fonts, is simpler pick a themeyou can call on them in the following manner in your CSS files. Because For instance, if you wanted to use Open Sans and Liberation Serif on your website, you would add the following to the top of technical reasonsyour CSS file: <pre>@font-face { font-family: 'Open Sans'; src: url('opensans-regular.eot'); src: url('opensans-regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('opensans-regular.woff') format('woff'), url('opensans-regular.ttf') format('truetype'), G url('opensans-regular. begun to serve these svg#open_sansregular') format('svg'); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;} @font-face { font from its own Cloud-family: 'Liberation Serif'; src: url('liberationserif-regular.eot'); src: url('liberationserif-regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('liberationserif-regular.woff') format('woff'), url('liberationserif-regular.ttf') format('truetype'), url('liberationserif-regular. svg#liberationserif_displayregular') format('svg'Follow ); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;}</pre> You will want to make sure that all of the urls to the fonts include any directories that you may have placed the fonts in. You may notice I have referred to a sans-serif and a serif font. Keep that in mind. Now that you have specified your fonts, you can call on them throughout your CSS file wherever a font is called. Do this by searching for “font-family” in the document, and replace whatever that field contains with the money!following, depending on which font you want to call. To call on the serif font, you can simply change the text along the lines below. When you include “serif” at the end, this is called font-stacking, and it’s a useful back-up in case there are compatibility issues with your font displaying in your visitor’s browser: <pre>font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;</pre> When you want to call on your sans serif font, you could do something like this: <pre>font-family: 'Open Sans' Google serve , sans-serif;</pre> Even though you have uploaded your favorite fontsto your server, Theme developer uses these if you do not want to automatically default to the system default fontsshould your font fail, web developer pick themesyou can do further font-stacking with common fonts. Simply call on the fonts in your order of preference as explained below, web owner pay keeping your self-hosted font as the first font in the web developerstack. <h3 class="title entry removal-2">Web safe fonts</h3> If specifying fonts is not a high priority for you, users an easier solution is to font-stack with “web safe” fonts. These are common fonts that you list in order of preference, typically in a list ending either in “serif” or “sans-serif” as a back-up, as seen above. For instance, if you want your user to see the web page Georgia font, but are tracker by comfortable with any serif font displaying, then in your CSS and HTML files, you can simply remove all references to the Google when they navigate fonts as above, and state something like this wherever a font is called (search for any reference to “font-family”): <pre>font-family: ‘Georgia’, ‘Times New Roman’, serif;</pre> If the user’s system contains the Georgia font, that should display, if not, it will fall back on the pagesTimes New Roman, Google profit or finally on studying users behaviorthe system-default serif font. List your favorite web-safe serif or san-serif fonts according to similarity and preference. W3 has a useful article[https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp] listing and displaying web safe fonts for you to choose fromThat's it! You've liberated your website and visitors from a Google tracker!</span>
== Replacements ==
 
<span class="intro">To remove the Google fonts in the website, you should find in the .css and .html files all the reference to a '.ttf' inclusion (yes this is difficult on purpose, figure out our target audicene and the amount of web developing resources is still a point to address)</span>
<h3 class="title entry solution-1">Fontello</h3>
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