[website] Fonts Roboto and Roboto Mono

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 22:19:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> These are made by Google and are optimized for the Web. On 
> https://www.google.com/fonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Roboto it 
> seems like downloading a few of them keeps that gauge in the 
> green region.

Right, but Google doesn't know about all the other resources we 
already use on dlang.org (CodeMirror / "Edit and run", sidebar 
resources, Disqus for DDox etc.).

> Not sure what I'm looking at, but point taken. Perhaps I should 
> try that on the main site.

We control the content on dlang.org, and we don't have much 
Unicode, so it might be fine there. The issue is then with 
consistency across websites.

> Well yah but our interior design has grown long in the tooth. 
> Time for a change. I'll ask a trusted lieutenant (myself) to 
> try Roboto and Roboto Mono on the site.

Here is an alternative:

http://www.cssfontstack.com/

It allows choosing font sets that are already available on most 
machines out there.