2 years ago

When it comes to using custom fonts on websites, the de-facto way to do currently is to use the https://fonts.google.com/. Now, most people would add direct URLs to the fonts provided by Google Fonts instead of self-hosting them like so.

Let’s say you want to use a custom font only for certain characters.

For the scenario I just described, you can append an additional query parameter text to the font request URL.

Doing this can effectively reduce the size of the font file by up to 90% and in turn optimize the overall font request!