To be clear when I say CDN here, I mean where you are loading some assets from someone else's domain, rather than a CDN fronting your domain. jQuery from - and yes jQuery is still very much a thing!). So let's look at what we can do to minimise the performance impact, but also give the designers what they want - win win! Self-Hosting assets versus Third-Party hostingĪ few years back it was all the rage to use a CDN to serve common assets (e.g. Still, many feel differently, and fonts are here, whether I appreciate them or not, and many developers aren't given a choice whether to use them or not. However, I've also been acutely aware of the performance implications of them so maybe that's clouded my view of them. Sure they look a bit nicer, and can understand they make a message seem more on-brand, but for the main body of text at least they seem more of a nice to have - I've never read an article more or less (or treated the contents any differently) because it had a pretty font. I'm much more practical than design-y (look at this website for evidence of that!) and have never totally got the need for fonts. Now, to be totally up front, I'll admit that fonts are not my strong point. Through that I've come up with a more nuanced answer to the question, that in the past I thought was easy: should you self-host Google Fonts? In the last few weeks, because of a combination of various things at work, and in side-projects, I've been learning a lot about web fonts and also a lot more about Google Fonts specifically. This page was originally created on 1 and last edited on 2.
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