Should you self-host Google Fonts?

Re:Should you self-host Google Fonts? by polyphonicist on Sunday February 23, 2020 @12:21AM (#22395291)

Google has a reputation of shutting their services down. What if they shut their fonts CDN down or change their URLs without redirects?

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Re:Should you self-host Google Fonts? by mewpmewp2 on Sunday February 23, 2020 @05:22AM (#22396122)

This might not be end of the world. In a lot of cases convenience is worth the risks. There is no golden rule that one should never depend on third parties. It is always balancing pros vs cons.

Self hosting introduces extra code, resources and assets that you as a developer must introduce and maintain. This is not free.

Especially if worst thing that happens is a wrong font loaded.

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Re:Should you self-host Google Fonts? by spookthesunset on Sunday February 23, 2020 @12:22AM (#22395295)

Than a hell of a lot of sites lose their fonts until they update.

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Re:Should you self-host Google Fonts? by onion2k on Sunday February 23, 2020 @03:51AM (#22395840)

To be fair, lots of people being affected hasn't stopped Google in the past.

In the case of Fonts though, it's a good source of user and browser data, so it's not likely to be shut down any time soon.

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