[preommr]

Because web tech (and Google in particular) is a mess of weird politics.

There are some things that are really well executed, and other things where the ball gets dropped completely.

Chrome will come along and do something like hide parts of the url, or allow scroll-jacking, but then say that fonts should probably be a system level implementation.

It would be trivial for the chrome team to establish something like a series of web-safe fonts like Roboto, Inter, Merriweather, etc. Stuff that gets used incredibly often. Even things like licensing aren't really an issue when most of these fonts are under their open license not to mention that Google has the money to be able to license it if they wanted to.

[austinpena]

Doesn’t google benefit from getting data on where fonts are served?