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Typophiles like Google's CDN because it can have way more nuanced conditions about what exact font to load But you don't have to use it, and yes for some reaso
by vmception 6y ago
Typophiles like Google's CDN because it can have way more nuanced conditions about what exact font to load
But you don't have to use it, and yes for some reason that seems to be a lost art.
- tinbucket 6y agoCan you explain a bit more about what you mean by “way more nuanced conditions about what exact font to load”? I’ve tried both approaches recently and found using Google to be quicker and less work, but didn’t find it more nuanced or specific. What have I missed?
- capableweb 6y agoGoogle Webfonts looks at the useragent (and maybe more?) of the requester and serves different stylesheets depending on that, changing if to load WOFF or TTF fonts for example.
- innocenat 6y agoIf you need to support browser that doesn't support woff2, Google Font do that for you automatically. Furthermore, Google Font subsets their fonts so that if you only use English, the other parts of the font that contain Greek, etc. won't load (via unicode-range CSS)