Web Fonts in your discovery layer?

[Michael Schofield]

Hi Chris,

 

We don't have a discovery layer, but we use custom fonts and icon-fonts that
live on our own server. I know that swapping image icons with icon fonts has
done nothing but increased performance - but that's more about removing
images than anything.

 

I can't imagine that Typekit or Google Web Fonts would greatly impact yours.
There are web font JS plugins-or you could write your own-that fallback on
your font stack if Typekit seems a little laggy, but they serve-up thousands
of web fonts flawlessly. Notable lag or "font flashing" (displaying one font
before the web font loads) probably aren't much of an issue. Also, if you
use a relatively popular web font you might have the added benefit that many
of your users have already cached it browsing other websites - same benefit
to using the Google jQuery CDN instead of locally serving it.

 

Anyway, I'm just speculating - enthusiastically. : )

 

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
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Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 1:42 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Web Fonts in your discovery layer?

 

I'm interested in trying to use a Typekit font with our III Encore discovery
layer.  Has anyone explored this with Encore or any other discovery layer?  


How was the setup?  Any noticeable performance hit?

Thanks,
Chris


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Jefferson County Public Library, Colorado

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