Re: Request: Using Rubik Webfont from Google Fonts Directory in debian.org

On 15/06/19 13.55, Yao Wei wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Paul, the code snippet above is under assumption that Rubik font is
>> installed on debian.org server (via yet to be created package).
> There are several reasons we don't want to use external fonts:
>
> * We want to make our websites use resources from Debian
>    infrastructure.
>
> By using webfonts from external sources, we can make other companies
> possible to sniff our visitor statistics.  Some people here do want to
> migrate away from Google as well.
>
> * Not all people have unlimited network access.
>
> For example, my mobile internet access do have a data cap at 1.7 GiB,
> and I intended to have the data cap because I want to warn myself about
> phone addiction.  Some people using satellite internet access could
> suffer from extra payments just by a webpage embedding webfonts.
>
> The web nowadays contains mostly meaningless data, especially tracking
> code, unwantingly large images, unnecessary javascript and webfonts,
> etc.  And I hope we can withstand against the trand.
>
> Yao Wei
So the best solution for this request is to install Rubik font to 
debian.org server (preferably via package), and update CSS code to use 
the font, with fallback to Helvetica, Arial, and system-default font 
respectively, as I stated multiple times earlier.