[ahoge]

As a NoScript user, I rarely see web fonts and I prefer it this way. The text shows up instantaneously and the font will look great and be perfectly readable.

Most web fonts don't look that nice on Windows. Windows heavily relies on hinting and doing this properly is a lot of hard mind-numbing work.

Most web fonts also aren't that readable. Sure, your wide/thin/square font looks very modern and stuff, but it's not as readable as a Verdana or Arial. When I visit your site, I'm there for the text, not the font.

[RexRollman]

I know you are specifically talking about web fonts but let's face it: a lot of the modern web sucks ass.

I don't want my browser downloading custom fonts, autoplay videos, animated GIFs, or CSS elements that move around on their own (or refuse to move when I scroll). I am also not interested having my browser download javascript or tracking cookies from dozens of third party domains when I visit a site.

[gopowerranger]

Your complaint is about design and how the site serves the page, not web fonts. Knowledgeable developers know how to deliver web fonts quickly and web fonts that looks good on your system.

Unless you're paying by the byte, what gets downloaded shouldn't concern you from a well-developed site that doesn't hang on your phone.

Unfortunately, in this copy/paste era, too many sites shoot themselves in the foot.

[PhantomGremlin]

I'm there for the text, not the font

Me too. In Firefox on OS X, I simply set Lucida Grande as my default font, and I uncheck the box that allows pages to choose their own fonts. I don't think I'm missing much.

[mrec]

I did the same in FF/Win - web fonts were a huge step back in my opinion - but immediately discovered a bunch of sites (including GitHub) abusing web fonts for button images, which made them pretty much unusable. Have you found a selective workaround for this?

[snsr]

Web fonts done properly don't require JavaScript. You are correct about Windows having objectively terrible font rendering though, and not just in web browsers.

[ahoge]

> Web fonts done properly don't require JavaScript.

NoScript blocks fonts, video, audio, and JavaScript.