3 ms·
> Would this be a viable thing to do? Yes, ish. So not really. If you add them all to the OS font store then all those fonts are available to other applicatio
by dspillett 4y ago
> Would this be a viable thing to do?
Yes, ish. So not really.
If you add them all to the OS font store then all those fonts are available to other applications (probably good) but this may be an inconvenience to a lot of users by making it hard to find the few fonts they actually do use for other work (almost certainly bad).
If you don't add then to the OS font store then they only work with your browser.
Also, even if you did add them to the OS font store, it still doesn't work on other browsers unless they also have yours installed.
Also 100 fonts in a range of sub-styles (italic/not at least) and weights (at least bold/not) could be an extra 100Mb of stuff that you are adding to your installer and application footprint (potentially significant on small devices like non-flagship phones) which may be very rarely used (the majority of sites don't use Google Fonts).
Furthermore, how do you pick the 100? Is that enough to cover enough cases to actually be useful? A site using specific fonts is likely to want something really specific and there are approaching 1,500 options on Google Fonts, so the top 100 might not cover a significant proportion of sites using the service.
The point of web font loading is that a site can use what it wants without having to worry about whether it is already available on any given client device or not.