I completely agree that it needs to be more widely used, and I absolutely think that google could go a long way toward making it more common. But to be complet

I completely agree that it needs to be more widely used, and I absolutely think that google could go a long way toward making it more common. But to be completely honest, lack of user agent support shouldn't be a reason to not use a feature. Edge doesn't support it, so Edge users are less secure. There are also user agents that have CORS restrictions disabled or don't support HSTS, but i'm still going to use and rely on both of those for security. And it sounds like you and I disagree completely on the usefulness of fonts. For me a font isn't "unnecessary" any more than paint isn't necessary on a house. Sure, you could live in a house without paint, but I want paint on my house. As for longer load times, and degraded visual quality. The previous is being dealt with via new font-display css descriptor, and in browsers that don't support that they have timeouts of normally 3 seconds at most, and the former is an opinion that I absolutely don't share.