Should you self-host Google Fonts?

Re:Should you self-host Google Fonts? by dylan604 on Sunday February 23, 2020 @03:19AM (#22395747)

does it really make sense to load a large font for a single line of text on the page regardless if it is self-hosted or not? that must be one important line of text.

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Re:Should you self-host Google Fonts? by e12e on Sunday February 23, 2020 @05:04AM (#22396040)

If you use a custom/download able font at all, it would make sense to use one copy (URL) - so every visitor only has to download it once - then use it from cache. This probably also the best reason to use a central CDN over your own - likely some other site already warmed up the client cache for you, with popular fonts (the ultimate in pre-warmed font cache, is of course the fonts the browser/os already have installed - unfortunately the lowest common denominator is a problem here, between Android, ios, os x, windows, Linux).

I'm not sure if Google font service actually does facilitate cross-site caching though - there might be tailored URLs or account?

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Re:Should you self-host Google Fonts? by XelNika on Sunday February 23, 2020 @11:46AM (#22397820)

The article already addresses that. Cross-site caching is blocked in Safari and will be blocked in Chrome in the future.

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