The new Webfonts API

The new Webfonts API

Wordpress Fonts

This is merged: Webfonts API by aristath · Pull Request #37140 · WordPress/gutenberg Implementing a Webfonts API is using Fontsource

Complying with GDPR when using Google Fonts – Make WordPress Themes

From WPTT aka Official WordPress Themes Team

This is exactly what I need for local fonts, from the official team: WPTT/webfont-loader: Download webfonts and host them locally on a WordPress site.

New package to allow locally hosting webfonts

A lot of themes and plugins are using this library:

Local Fonts

Custom Fonts is the simplest and most logical solution without any “automation.” However, it didn’t support the “italic” style in the past and also had compatibility issues with Oxygen Builder. Finally, by the end of 2023, the “Italic” feature was implemented, making it no longer necessary to deal with these issues.

Local Google Fonts is another plugin that attempts to automatically identify the fonts used on a website. However, I am not particularly fond of this feature and, in my experience, the plugin is often unable to detect anything. Unfortunately, there is also no option to manually modify or edit the results. I will investigate this plugin further and provide more details at a later time.

For Google fonts, use: google webfonts helper Adobe Typekits fonts are downloaded at %APPDATA%\Adobe\CoreSync\plugins\livetype\r They can be preprared for web using Webfont Generator or other online @font-face generator like Transfonter


  • Font Hero by dplugins.com is paid, but I admire Croatian authors and it is really not that expensive

New: Local google fonts, host google fonts locally by Easyfonts


Google Fonts

Swap Google Fonts Display plugin captures output using ob_start and searches for “googleapis.com/css”, replacing it everywhere with “font-display=swap”. Therefore, this only applies to external fonts and is a very dull change.


Breeze cache plugin has option to localy cache …. lot of things


Fix Ensure text remains visible during webfont load Self host Google fonts for better Core Web Vitals


Google-Fonts-Wrapper

date 05. Dec 2022 | modified 18. Aug 2024
filename: Wordpress » Performance » Local Fonts