~amolith/willow#38: 
Custom font settings

Way in the backlog (unless someone feels inspired), I'd like to allow users to set custom fonts in a similar fashion to Akkoma. We could store that sanitised preference in a user's row in the DB (would require schema migration) and use it in templates when constructing pages: the schema could default to "Atkinson Hyperlegible", and when the template sees that, we include the CSS necessary for loading the font. When the template sees something else, we omit Atkinson Hyperlegible's CSS and just set font-family to whatever the user entered in the field.

That preference should have a description (or a link to the docs website once we have one) explaining that it's for local fonts the user already has installed and include tips on how to identify the font's name in a way the browser will recognise. On Linux, that might be telling the user to run the snippet below, replacing {word in font name} with a portion of what they think the font's name is.

fc-list | awk -F: '{print $2}' | sed 's/^\s*//;s/\s*$//' | sort -u | grep "{word in font name}"

For example, running that with Inter on my machine produces:

$ fc-list | awk -F: '{print $2}' | sed 's/^\s*//;s/\s*$//' | sort -u | grep "Inter"
Inter
Inter,Inter Black
Inter,Inter Extra Bold
Inter,Inter Extra Light
Inter,Inter Light
Inter,Inter Medium
Inter,Inter Semi Bold
Inter,Inter Thin
Status
REPORTED
Submitter
~amolith
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No-one
Submitted
1 year, 30 days ago
Updated
1 year, 30 days ago
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