Can Disqus match the font used by the rest of my site?

[Avai d'Amico]

One thing that really bothers me about Disqus is the font. It looks really out of place when the rest of my site is using a different font. Disqus can read my page to determine whether to use a dark or light theme. Is it possible to have it also determine the font, and match it? That would be so useful, and would make sites using Disqus commenting appear more professional. 

[Burak Yiğit Kaya]

Hi Avai,

We do detect the font on the page and use an appropriate one: serif or sans-serif. More than that such as custom fonts is not supported for various reasons. Do we fail to accurately detect if you use a serif or a sans-serif on your site or it just doesn't match the exact font you are using(which is expected)?

Best,

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Avai d'Amico <avai.mu...@gmail.com> wrote:

One thing that really bothers me about Disqus is the font. It looks really out of place when the rest of my site is using a different font. Disqus can read my page to determine whether to use a dark or light theme. Is it possible to have it also determine the font, and match it? That would be so useful, and would make sites using Disqus commenting appear more professional. 

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[Avai d'Amico]

My site uses a serif font, and my Disqus with auto detect uses a sans-serif font. So that is correct, because if a site is going to have two fonts which don't match, they should at least be different enough to not clash. Two different serif fonts or two different sans-serif fonts would look even worse! I understand the design concept behind that decision. That's not what I'm suggesting here. 

My suggestion is for Disqus to read my font and then call the same font in its own CSS. That would allow for a seamless look which currently is not possible. Since Disqus can already read my site, it might as well make full use of it. 

You wouldn't have to worry about making sure you have copies of every font in existence, because if a site is already using a font that means the files are already in place. When I license a new font, it's licensed for use everywhere on my site; not just in one paragraph. Further, there are many Google Web Fonts which are free to use. WordPress now has support for all Google Web Fonts built in. But this is getting a little off topic now...

Bottom line: I know Disqus doesn't match the exact font right now. But if you could implement this in the future, it would be a very desirable feature. I'm sure the majority of Disqus users would love to see a feature like this, because sites always look nicer when the fonts all match. 

Thanks for hearing me out. 

On Monday, February 10, 2014 7:52:54 AM UTC-6, Burak Yiğit Kaya wrote:

Hi Avai,

We do detect the font on the page and use an appropriate one: serif or sans-serif. More than that such as custom fonts is not supported for various reasons. Do we fail to accurately detect if you use a serif or a sans-serif on your site or it just doesn't match the exact font you are using(which is expected)?

Best,

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[Burak Yiğit Kaya]

Avai,

If we are showing a different font-type that looks like an error. I respect your preference about contrasting the fonts but that was not our aim so I'll look into this. Once that is fixed, you can still enforce a specific font-type from your forum settings so don't worry :)

About using the same font in your site, that is not possible due to a few reasons, one being the licensing issue you have mentioned. Although you think Disqus is a "part" of your web site, since we actually are hosted in from an iframe, through our own servers, the font needs to be licensed to Disqus too and there's no way for us to know this.

More on that it is almost impossible to make sure the embed is usable in any font that is out there, used by publishers using Disqus.

Finally, even if the above two were solvable, we still have the problem of loading a font from an unknown source (unless we host it or a system smart enough verifies that it is safe) which would lead to security issues on Disqus' domain.

I appreciate the feature request and hope you understand our side too.

Best,

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[Burak Yiğit Kaya]

Oh, I forgot to ask your site's URL for the inspection. Would oyu mind providing it here? :)

Best,

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