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by jasonkester 3940 days ago
Why spend the time and effort pulling a custom font across the wire if you're only going to use symbols that exist in the web safe fonts included with the browser?

Seems kinda wasteful.
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jklein11 3940 days ago
I think the reason for this is to prevent cross browser bug you seemed to be experiencing in the parent comment.
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pkstn 3939 days ago
Open Sans is used everywhere in the page. Also the buttons on top..
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