MEASURED before: the region dashboard matched live doxa.life on 61 of 68
computed properties, and every one of the 7 differences traced to a single
cause — Bebas Neue could not be loaded. Three were the font-family itself, and
four were workarounds it forced: an uppercase hack imitating Bebas's caps, and
two font-sizes stepped down because a wider fallback face overflowed their card
widths. So it was never seven problems, it was one with six knock-ons.
DX-life does not ship the file either — @nuxt/fonts downloads and self-hosts it
for them, which is why their computed family reads "Bebas Neue", "Bebas Neue
Fallback: ...". We could not @font-face from their origin: their file is served
without CORS headers, so a cross-origin face fails silently. The font is a
Google Font under the OFL, so it is vendored here from Google Fonts — both
subsets, their own unicode-ranges (css2 v16) — self-hosted, never a CDN, the
same rule public/assets/vendor/tabulator follows.
library/composables/useDocumentFont.js is shared because @font-face is
DOCUMENT-scoped: a face declared inside a shadow root is ignored, so a custom
element cannot register its own webfont through useShadowStyles. That asymmetry
is the reason this is a separate composable rather than a flag on that one.
Idempotent per document, so a composite registers one face for both panes; both
profiles call it because each has a standalone leaf page where the other is
absent.
With the real face loaded, the workarounds are DELETED rather than kept: the
goal-card heading is back to their 59.6046px, the headline figure back to
59.6046px, and text-transform:uppercase and font-stretch:condensed are gone —
Bebas is already caps and already condensed, and stacking those changed the
glyphs. The three-across switcher still holds at 372/372/372 with no overflow,
which is the geometry that forced the step-downs in the first place.
★ THE CATCH THAT MATTERED. With the font vendored the diff said 68 of 68
IDENTICAL, 0 differ — and it was WRONG. document.fonts reported our face in
"error" status: generate-tree stages an ALLOWLIST of asset dirs into the tree,
fonts/ was not in it, so the leaf resolved assets/fonts/... to a 404 and every
heading silently rendered on the fallback. Both sides were agreeing on a
FALLBACK, which is not a match. A font that 404s is invisible to any check that
reads font-family instead of asking the engine whether the family is usable, so
the probe now calls document.fonts.check() and the staging list carries fonts/.
After the fix: usable true, face "loaded", and the headings render in Bebas.
Two honest notes. The fallback TAIL still differs — theirs carries @nuxt/fonts'
generated metric-fallback names we do not produce — so the probe compares the
FIRST family (the face actually used) and reports the tail as an accepted
difference rather than counting it either way. And document.fonts.check()
returns false on THEIR page, which contradicts it visibly rendering in Bebas,
so that check is trusted in one direction only: it proves ours loaded, it does
not prove parity.
The licence ships beside the font, extensionless: check:public-hygiene refuses
*.txt in a served folder and is right to, while the OFL requires the licence to
accompany redistributed font files. The conventional name satisfies both.
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