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by Flimm 2772 days ago
Google Fonts will serve a different .woff2 font file depending on the user-agent. You cannot accomplish that with just CSS. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8802748
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the only difference is that on non-windows platforms google strips font hinting. That's just a (very minor) performance optimization done to reduce file sizes. Just download the windows version of the fonts (in all of the formats - woff, woff2, eof, etc).. the minor difference in size isnt worth the effort.

You can also just download the ttf files, and run them through a web font generator w/ proper support for hinting, etc... and then you'll have all of the formats you need.