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Self hosting Google Fonts for improved performance

Christian Oliff · 22 Mar 2021

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  1. If your own site is hosted on a CDN (as it should be!) you can improve font-loading performance by self hosting fonts and the respective CSS on the same domain as your content.
  2. Summary: self-hosting Google Fonts is fast and easy to setup, improves font-loading performance and can potentially improve your site's GDPR compliance too!

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