That's incorrect. Google fonts subsets the font (default is latin). You can also limit the font to just the characters you want by appending &text=ABCDEF... to

That's incorrect. Google fonts subsets the font (default is latin). You can also limit the font to just the characters you want by appending &text=ABCDEF... to the URL. [1] They use other tricks to shrink the size of the font: WOFF2 is served to compatible browsers for further compression, and they remove unused hinting when they serve fonts to an OS X client. [2] Their caching and CDN are good too. There are reasons not to use Google Fonts, but download size is not on that list. [1] https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#Optimizing_Requests https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#Opt... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqesm0euf9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqesm0euf9M