Re: [Tails-dev] Logo integration

intrigeri:
>> A concerned I had was about the inclusion of the origin TTF files in the
>> source tree. This font is really great because it has many weight: 9,
>> for a total of 12 variants. I already felt the need to use 6 in the CSS.
>> But each file is more than 100k and compresses quite badly.
>
>> So, shall we:
>
>> - Try to minimize the number of variants we use?
>> - Link to an online version and not ship them in the ISO?
>> - Don't care so much and enjoy the variants as much as we want?
>
> I would not care much about seeing these fonts adding half a MiB to
> the ISO (that's what I got from tar+bz2'ing all of those fonts together).
>
> What I'm concerned about is how it's comfortable (or a pain) to browse
> our website online, especially with Tor. Usually, one would just have
> browsers fetch the fonts from Google, and share the cache with other
> websites that use the same fonts. I don't think we want to do that on
> our website, though. And even if we did, Tor Browser isolates cache by
> first-level domain URL, so we can't rely on this kind of caching.
>
> So, in the current state of things, I can't think of a good way to
> heavily use web fonts on our website, without significantly degrading
> visitor experience on poor Internet connections or with Tor.

Ok, so here's my plan:

- Replace the banner by an image, either PNG or SVG.
- Limit the numbers of variants in the body, ideally to 1.
- Check that is gracefully degrades to DejaVu until it's downloaded.

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sajolida