Ask HN: Will webfonts ever be good enough?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7303020

by eliot_sykes • 12 years ago

2 2 12 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

How do we get webfonts to have all the benefits of system installed fonts with none of the downsides?

samcasas• 12 years ago

one thing you should wonder, do you think is good enough to leave a image to represent a heading? you might think, oh cool that look nice, but remember it affects SEO, there is another solutions for this workaround (cufon) but is not as flexible as webfonts, i think that webfonts will never replace a system font, but the web designers need to get a fallback, a reliable fallback.

Answering your question, i think is not possible to get the benefits from a webfont, but one possible solution for your problem related to the downsides is to ask the visitor to install the font required, but it would be not practical.

workhere-io• 12 years ago

do you think is good enough to leave a image to represent a heading? you might think, oh cool that look nice, but remember it affects SEO

Having an image for a logo often consumes less bandwidth than a web font (because there's a lot of CSS and a font file involved with a web font). SEO shouldn't be a problem if you use the "alt" attribute in the image tag.

Ask HN: Will webfonts ever be good enough?

Related Stories