How to host fonts locally

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#1

I followed these instructions to put Lato in the font folder under my main folder, then added the code to CSS in hcild theme. https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts/lato?subsets=latin

However, I see that the font is still being pulled front Google. How can I fix this?

#2

Hi There,

Thank you for writing in, but why do you want to do that? X and PRO offer you the Google Fonts (Theme Options > Typography). You can also request Google Fonts by just adding an @import statement on your child theme style.css file (https://theme.co/apex/forum/t/google-font-selector-in-text-editor/1594/2)

But If you really need to host the Google fonts, get all the font files and follow the guide provided here.

Cheers!

#3

Good morning,
I want to host the Google fonts so that the site loads more quickly.

#4

Hi there,

I’m not sure how you implemented it, but I’m sure the instructions provided in this URL https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts/lato?subsets=latin are correct. Please provide your site’s URL where you implemented this.

But I don’t see any point doing this, the browser still needs to download the font to render it, either from your site or from Google. Personally, I prefer it to be hosted it in google since it acts like CDN and Cloud hosting which obviously faster than self-hosted files.

Thanks!

#5

and here’s why: https://www.keycdn.com/blog/web-font-performance/

#6

This worked but I see that it is now pulling from Google and from my CDN. How do I get it to not pull from Google?

#7

There is no option for that in X and Pro. It could be possible with custom development but that would be outside the scope of our support.

Thank you for understanding.