Local font hosting

[Noah_S]

In an effort to host everything locally on my server, I just downloaded the fonts I use to my computer and uploaded them on the server. Fonts can be downloaded here.

[Dan Q]

If you're after selfhosting fonts from Google Web Fonts, I find that the Google Webfonts Helper (a free and open source web tool, not affiliated with Google) is better than Google's own Google Fonts.

It's got all the same fonts, but makes it much easier to get the font files you need in the best possible format.

Google Fonts will, by default, give you .ttf files which are fine for using in your favourite word processor but aren't optimised for the Web: they're relatively big files compared to more-modern formats like WOFF and WOFF2. But the Google Webfonts Helper gives you WOFF2 (or both WOFF+WOFF2 if you care about compatibility with very old browsers) right off the bat, plus the right CSS to use.

Looking at your site for example, @Noah_S: I see that you're using Noto Sans Old Hungarian as a .ttf file, which is 113Kb... but the .woff2 version would be only 16Kb: a seventh of the size. Julee, the "handwriting" font you're using would be a third of the size if you switched from the .ttf to the .woff2 version. And so on: there's savings to be made!

[poesu]

Google Webfonts Helper

Thanks, Dan! And I was downloading the .woff2 files by manually visiting every link in the CSS Google gives… Now, this seems like a true hassle-free way to self-host my fonts. Defo going to link it on my Resource page

[Melooon]

.ttf files which are fine for using in your favourite word processor but aren't optimised for the Web: they're relatively big files compared to more-modern formats like WOFF and WOFF2

Is there a good utility for converting TTF to WOFF without messing them up? I have a LOT of ttf fonts on my sites already

[ribose]

good utility for converting TTF to WOFF

i like and recommend transfonter! i've used it to convert most of the fonts on my site. i also used it to subset a giant font file that covered waaay more unicode characters than i would ever need to use, and now it loads much faster.

[iSmile]

I recommend Bunny Fonts as an alternative to Google Fonts: https://fonts.bunny.net/