we will show you how to host & load google fonts locally (from your own server).īefore we dive into how to do this, let’s briefly go over the advantages and disadvantages of using web fonts. In this guide, we’ll show you how to use Google Fonts without relying on their servers. You’re free to use these fonts in any way you want, privately or commercially, in print, on your computer, in applications, and on websites. This means you can share them with friends, modify them to suit your needs, or even collaborate with the font creators to improve them. Here are a few words from Google on the subject:Īll of the Google Fonts web fonts are open source. Google offers hundreds of completely free fonts that you can use or download through their site, /fonts, and they are all open source.
Google, as you probably know, is one of the major players in font rendering and provides most of the web fonts we use. You might want to go straight to the practical part of loading fonts locally.
