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> Noto Sans (the best font) debatable :) > is not there https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/notosans

comment by GuinansEyebrows · 2025-09-15 · in How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts

Also: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1495

comment by brycewray · 2025-09-15 · in How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts

…Google Fonts has an open issue that is three years old here, with no response from Google: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/5537

comment by JimDabell · 2025-09-15 · in How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts

…pages [4] [1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Mono [2] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ [3] https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/4728 [4] https://github.com/iosevka-webfonts/iosevka

comment by kiennt26 · 2024-08-28 · in The Monospace Web

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Google Fonts: Can't use the /download URLs to fetch static font files

story by taubek · 2024-03-30 · 0 comments

…version will probably be available once the fonts are released on the Google Fonts service. [1]: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/6812

comment by sings · 2023-11-30 · in Reddit Sans

…of the doubt, they can change their mind at any time and suddenly one is in legal jeopardy. [1] https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/5463#issuecomment-129... [2] https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy

comment by V__ · 2023-09-09 · in Redesigned Google Fonts website

For any who doubt you on this count: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1495 ...still apparently up in the air, more than five years after the GDPR went into effect.

comment by brycewray · 2023-09-09 · in Redesigned Google Fonts website

FWIW: - https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1495 - https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/5537

comment by brycewray · 2023-08-28 · in Our startup received GDPR violation “notice”

Out of curiosity, which PRs? The PR list looks pretty healthy https://github.com/google/fonts/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Aopen+is%...

comment by 60secs · 2022-07-25

…Fonts is GDPR compliant (since you're leaking the fact that your visitor has visited your website): https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1495 Even if you do want to use your own hand-picked font on your site, just self host it, or bundle…

comment by WhyNotHugo · 2022-06-09 · in Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous

https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1495#issuecomment-374...

comment by brycewray · 2021-12-07 · in Google Webfonts Helper – Self-Hosting Google Fonts

Best source of truth on this (one way or the other), IMHO, is the issue I referenced in that article: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1495

comment by brycewray · 2021-12-07 · in Google Webfonts Helper – Self-Hosting Google Fonts

…and refuse to offer any way to version lock them. Really. Check out this issue for more details: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1307 . It's all a lot of magic for very little gain.

comment by CSSer · 2021-12-07 · in Google Webfonts Helper – Self-Hosting Google Fonts

…but generally speaking the Google Fonts repo is made up of permissively-licensed fonts. [0] [0] https://github.com/google/fonts#license

comment by chaosharmonic · 2021-12-07 · in Google Webfonts Helper – Self-Hosting Google Fonts

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Adding Computer Modern to Google Fonts

story by maxwell · 2021-09-11 · 1 comment

…change. I've created issue "Local font name makes web accessible", and I hope it would be fixed. https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/2855

comment by sergeykish · 2020-12-05 · in Self-host your fonts for better performance

…Fonts anymore, for example https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Noto%20Sans I've created issue https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/2855 ---- >> Any correctly-coded website will try a local source first, which should help a lot for…

comment by sergeykish · 2020-12-05 · in Self-host your fonts for better performance

…https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18303215/how-can-i-preve... https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/2620

comment by harrisonjackson · 2020-12-04 · in Self-host your fonts for better performance

…when on good connection > You can download all Google Fonts in a simple ZIP snapshot (over 300MB) > https://github.com/google/fonts installation depends on OS, on Arch Linux it would be $ yay -S ttf-google-fonts-git basically it puts font…

comment by sergeykish · 2020-12-04 · in Self-host your fonts for better performance

…Allegedly the problems in Crimson Text were supposed to be fixed up after Crimson Pro was released: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/2395#issuecomment-631... . I am aware of them updating fonts that they commissioned . But I know of…

comment by chrismorgan · 2020-07-09 · in Wikimedia FontCDN – an anonymizing, privacy-first reverse proxy to Google Fonts

They've always all been open, and you've always been able to get them. https://github.com/google/fonts

comment by kps · 2020-05-28 · in The Fastest Google Fonts

…I'm no webdev so this is the best I can do. Edit: I think this font is just broken on Win 7: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1137 , at least the version hosted on Adobe Fonts which this webpage is using.

comment by fireattack · 2020-05-08 · in Founders on SaaS Platforms They Use

…combination. They had to rollback, but there were a lot of escalations. You can see the issue here. https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1137 Self-hosting fixed the problem. We no longer use Google Font CDN.

comment by pcurve · 2020-02-23 · in Should you self-host Google Fonts?

…This was an incredibly frustrating bug to track down. Bug for those interested: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/2345

comment by tolmasky · 2020-02-23 · in Should you self-host Google Fonts?

The way google tracks fonts is so annoying. It took me furever to track down this bug: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/2345 Basically, one out of a thousand requests delivers a broken font that breaks document.fonts.load().

comment by tolmasky · 2020-02-20 · in Google Fonts Analytics

Any estimate when Inter can be expected? https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1455#event-2995287982

comment by flixic · 2020-02-19 · in Google Fonts Analytics

With some extra metadata, about 428MB. https://github.com/google/fonts Since the browser hands font rendering off to the operating system, however, the most pertinent browser-specific adjustment would be updating the (configurable)…

comment by LukeBMM · 2020-02-19 · in Google Fonts Analytics

https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1923

comment by rdsubhas · 2019-04-08 · in Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display

…still (after years) waiting to get pulled into the service. You can just look at the tickets at https://github.com/google/fonts This is quite suprising to me because i think google this way gets their snooping JS on lot of websites. It…

comment by omnimus · 2018-11-15 · in How Zapier Reached $35M ARR

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Discussion if Google Fonts is GDPR compliant

story by mmoez · 2018-05-31 · 75 comments

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GDPR compliance of Google Fonts

story by c17r · 2018-05-19 · 0 comments

…that I'm really not sure about. If it was me, I would just host the font locally so I was sure. 1: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1495#issuecomment-382...

comment by gnud · 2018-05-18 · in GDPR: Don't Panic

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Google fonts gives designers a one finger salute with latest Montserrat update

story by fonflirl · 2017-11-08 · 3 comments

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Should we stop using the Google font service and host on our own?

story by esistgut · 2017-11-08 · 105 comments

It gets worse (a thinly veiled threat to get the Google employee fired): https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1307#issuecomment-342...

comment by dictum · 2017-11-08 · in If you use Montserrat from Google Fonts your site is probably broken now

…to alter the fonts without changing their names. The repository with the fonts and tools is here: https://github.com/google/fonts

comment by dragonne · 2016-10-07 · in Google Noto Fonts

Download all Google fonts: https://github.com/google/fonts

comment by eknight15 · 2016-09-25 · in Google Web Fonts Typographic Project

…Edge bugs, and removed the block. If you see anything strange don't hesitate to report them at https://www.github.com/google/fonts/issues .

comment by scotth · 2016-06-15 · in Google Fonts Redesigned

This issue should now be resolved. Thanks for the report. Don't hesitate to add issues to https://www.github.com/google/fonts/issues if you see any other strangeness.

comment by scotth · 2016-06-15 · in Google Fonts Redesigned

> …Google has never updated it, ignoring the author’s pleas. It looks like the source repo is at https://github.com/google/fonts — has he tried a pull request? If not, maybe we can help with updates until they make it friendlier for…

comment by CharlesW · 2016-06-15 · in Google Fonts Redesigned

It's pretty easy to download them. They're on Github https://github.com/google/fonts

comment by corobo · 2016-05-11 · in Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy

All the Google-served web fonts are open source, mostly OFL or Apache licensed. https://github.com/google/fonts

comment by kps · 2015-10-04 · in Web Fonts Performance

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Google Fonts refuses to switch to HTTPS by default

story by sinak · 2015-04-28 · 0 comments

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Google Web Fonts on GitHub

story by iamdanfox · 2015-03-09 · 7 comments