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Privacy & Telemetry Policy

Traven is designed with a strict, privacy-first philosophy.
  • No Telemetry: Traven does not phone home, collect usage statistics, or log any user data.
  • No Analytics: There are no tracking scripts, no Google Analytics, and no marketing pixels included in the library.
  • No Cookies: Traven does not set, read, or require any cookies.

By default, the core editor skins (like skin-light.css and skin-starter.css) load absolutely nothing from external servers and work out-of-the-box using standard system fonts. Some alternative themes (like skin-colorful.css) or the pre-built distribution bundle (dist/traven.css) may include a default @import rule fetching accessible typography from the Google Fonts CDN for ease of deployment.

Going 100% Offline (Self-Hosting Fonts)

If you are deploying Traven in a strictly firewalled, offline, or high-privacy environment, you can easily self-host fonts by providing your own font files and updating the skin's @import rule.

Step 1: Create Your Own Font Files

Create a fonts/ directory in your project with the binary font files (.woff2) and a stylesheet that defines @font-face rules for the font families your skin uses (e.g., Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, Fira Code, Mozilla Headline).

Step 2: Load Your Local Fonts

In the <head> of your website or app pages where the editor is used, link your custom stylesheet:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/your/fonts/fonts.css">

Step 3: Update the Skin's Import Rule

Open the skin's .css file (e.g., skin-light.css, skin-dark.css, skin-colorful.css) and replace the @import url(...Google Fonts...) line at the top with:

@import url('/path/to/your/fonts/fonts.css');

Now, Traven will render using your locally hosted font files, and no external calls will be made to Google Fonts.

Why Google Fonts?

Google Fonts loading is enabled by default for skin-light.css, skin-dark.css, and skin-colorful.css — they import Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and Fira Code from the Google Fonts CDN via an @import at the top of the file. The skin-starter.css uses only system fonts and makes no external requests.

This default behavior prioritizes ease of deployment and visual consistency — developers get accessible, beautiful typography out of the box without needing to configure server assets or copy local binary files. The skin-editorial.css and skin-modern.css also import their own specialty fonts from Google Fonts.

Since these settings are contained entirely within modular CSS theme files, they are completely customizable. You can easily switch to a fully offline setup at any time by providing your own font files and updating the theme's @import rule as described in the "Going 100% Offline" section above.

Skins & Privacy

Traven ships with eight skins. Of these, two make zero external network calls — skin-starter.css (the built-in default) and skin-custom.css (the parameterized overlay). The remaining six load fonts from Google Fonts or BitMaks by default. None of these external calls transmit user data; they only fetch font files.

If your deployment requires 100% offline operation, replace the @import rule at the top of any skin file with a local reference to self-hosted font files. See the full list of all eight skins, their fonts, and self-hosting instructions in Skins.