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Websites that override fonts and colors
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2011–2023), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Websites that override fonts and colors, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Blocking remote fonts breaks icons on some sites, forcing the user to enable them2023-03-16
- Page text jumps around as fallback fonts swap in2023-03-16
- Icons break into garbled characters when downloadable fonts are disabled2022-03-28
- Sites override the user's configured font and colors, making text hard to read2021-04-08
- Sites overriding fonts makes it hard to apply personal font fixes via stylesheet2011-12-05