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by velosol 1096 days ago
I have and briefly the majority of the time you're missing little to nothing by not using webfonts. Occasionally the design language of a physical media property is carried forward with the font in a way that is interesting enough to be worthwhile (ie _The Atlantic_'s title font is instantly recognizable but not critical).

If you're bandwidth starved (ie ISDN or worse) then it's also a nice speedup.
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pentagrama 1096 days ago
Yeah, but as I mentioned in other comment, I found many issues with icons by blocking remote fonts, look at Google Podcasts https://imgur.com/a/6de4uNL
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velosol 1096 days ago
Google Podcasts while ugly without that icon font is still usable but the Mercado site seemed to be inaccessible. With uBlock you could allow fonts on the broken sites but probably not worth the effort outside of really low bandwidth.
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