Degoogling My Theme
I've been using the Archie theme for a few months now. I like the aesthetic and how minimal it is. One thing that's always bothered me is the usage of a Google font especially given that I'm pro-privacy and don't really use much of anything Google in my life. Today, I decided to put an end to that madness.
I'm not a web dev by any means but the change looked simple enough: remove the import in the CSS and put in a bunch of replacement fonts. The second part is what I had no idea about. Throughout the day, I had a few variations that I wasn't quite happy with. Just moments ago, I stumbled on this recent post by Finley Baker that had the answer. As she points out, there's a Monospace Code font stack on Modern Font Stacks which is exactly what I needed.
font-family: ui-monospace, 'Cascadia Code', 'Source Code Pro', Menlo, Consolas, 'DejaVu Sans Mono', monospace;
While putting in that change, I also decided to switch the reds in the theme with yellow (f0c000) to better suit the citron theme. These changes are small but they give me a small amount of joy. 😊