bunnycdn made a google fonts alternative [0]
that's cool and all, but like why not just host your own fonts
apparently there's a lot of demand for these font hosting services, I still don't know why
@avery i would use custom fonts for z.B sitelen pona
@avery but other than that eh
@avery@social.avery.cafe they were pretty useful in the days of shared font caches. But nowadays pretty much useless.
@avery@social.avery.cafe but, isn't it still 2005?
@avery I have no idea either, a ttf is not exactly big, and if your page uses so many that it's a storage or bandwidth issue, there's much bigger problems
@avery in my experience because it's really rare to find a font bundled well with all the different formats (woff, woff2, TTF, etc) and a good CSS ready to go.
Every font I've ever used I had to at least rework the CSS (e.g. to not have "fontname" and "fontname_bold" as different fonts)
I +think+ that's because SIL licence means it's not possible to distribute a bundle...
@avery The only thing we use Google Fonts for (reluctantly) is downloading the fonts.
@IceWolf same here, iirc I usually download them, copy their css and modify it to use the self hosted files
I can see how it can be useful to quickly try out different fonts if you haven't decided on one yet
(of course not using custom fonts is better, but then i'd be a hypocrite...)