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06/08/23 - Switching To SVGs04/08/23 - Why I Switched Fonts25/07/23 - Use Plaintext10/07/23 - Oversimplification Killssf.cu > Blog > Why I Switched Fonts
04 August 2023
4 min
+04 August 2023
1 min
This post is just a quick update to announce a hard decision that I have made. I have switched the font on this website from JetBrains Mono to Courier New. This change was made because I feel like JetBrains Mono looks more fitting in a terminal because it looks janky on a website. Courier New is a monospace font but still maintains the feeling and look I want from my website.
This change has had an unintended benefit. Previously, my website's homepage weighed around 50KB in size which is spectacular. However, what I did not realize was that around 40KB were being taken up by JetBrains Mono. By switching to a default typeface, my website now weighs a shockingly low 12KB. If you would like to view the full GTMetrix report, do so here.
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sf.cu > Blog > Switching To SVGs
+06 August 2023
1 min
+Debloating my website has been an educational experience to say the least. There were so many small things which seemed insignificant at first but made a massive difference to the speed of my website. Most of these changes have had little to no impact on the look and feel of my website but have reduced the size and improved the efficiency by a lot.
+One of these changes was definitely moving away from Font Awesome. I did not think much of the icons on my website as they were already too many in size for me to switch every single one to another library. However, after watching this video from Eric Murphy, I thought about it. Then, I still said no because there were way too many icons on my website.
+Then, I did a GTMetrix scan of my website and saw that my icons and fonts were taking up 90% of my website's initial load resources. That forced me to take on the challenge to change every single icon to SVGs. It was much easier than expected.
+Now, my website is much more leaner than before. I am happy on how this change turned out.
+ + +...terminal applications should be used as much as possible. They are swift. They can be used quickly and also use less resources and space while running on just about anything. They are not as difficult as they look and can be used for uses which GUI apps do not have. They cannot be used all the time because there are rare exceptions in which GUI applications have to be used. However, these are so little that I do not mind keeping GUI apps just for these use cases.
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