Talking Drupal #476 - Off The Cuff #10

November 18, 2024

Today we are talking about some things are on our mind including, The DOJ Accessibility ruling,Drupal CMS Event Recipes and Tooling for core development with our Hosts. We’ll also cover @font-your-face as our module of the week.

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Topics

  • DOJ Accessibility Ruling
  • Drupal CMS
  • Tooling for core development
  • Open University

Resources

Module of the Week

@font-your-face
  • Brief description:
    • Have you ever wanted to add and manage web fonts for your Drupal site, directly within the admin interface? There’s a module for that.
  • Module name/project name:
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in May 2010 by Scott Reynen, but the most recent release was by Henrique Mendes (hmendes) of CI&T
    • Versions available: 7.x-2.8 and 4.0.0 versions available, the latter of which support Drupal 9.4 and 10.
  • Maintainership
    • Actively maintained
    • Security coverage
    • Test coverage
    • Documentation, but looks like it might be ready for a refresh
    • Number of open issues: 48 open issues, 8 of which are bugs against the current branch
  • Usage stats:
    • 32,213 sites
  • Module features and usage
    • The module provides an interface to browse fonts from Google, Adobe, Typekit, and more
    • License restrictions for fonts are clearly indicated
    • When you find a font you want to use, you just click “enable”. You don’t need to write any CSS or define a library, and it’s easy to mix-and-match fonts from different providers. It can even make it easier to include your own local fonts
    • The module includes submodules for the different font providers, so you enable the submodules based on where you want to use fonts from
    • Then you can import the fonts for those providers, though you do need an API key to import fonts from Google
    • The module does also have an API, so you can write your own modules to integrate with other font providers, or access the information about available fonts