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by FiloSottile 3695 days ago
Oh, hey, good point. Let me fix that.

EDIT: Done. Not exactly straightforward to download Google Fonts but there are great helpers around. Got rid of CDNjs as well, since CloudFlare has HTTP/2 now. No 3rd parties left except GA, which will go in a day or two.
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tombrossman 3694 days ago
If you just want to have nicer webfonts without the 'phoning home to Google' issue try Brick webfonts at http://brick.im/.

If the goal is to get rid of all third-party dependencies you can still use the Brick repository on GitHub to download the better looking fonts and self-serve them, just as you are now with the Google served ones.

The only 'gotcha' I found with using Brick is that NoScript users won't see the fonts and won't see the Brick URL in the menu for whitelisting. They will need to inspect the page and learn that they must manually add brick.im. Not exactly user-friendly but then again NoScript breaks lots of things and users are used to it.

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lucb1e 3694 days ago
> Not exactly straightforward to download Google Fonts

Hah, wonder why that is.

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corobo 3693 days ago
It's pretty easy to download them. They're on Github

https://github.com/google/fonts

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