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There is a switch in Chromium where one can disable remote fonts entirely. Obviously not for the average user, and more of a power-user thing, but still handy:
by signaler 11y ago
There is a switch in Chromium where one can disable remote fonts entirely. Obviously not for the average user, and more of a power-user thing, but still handy:
--disable-remote-fonts
You can find a tonne of other optimizations you can do to Chromium here: peter.sh/feed/chromium-command-line-switches
Also if you want fonts that load faster than Google Wenfonts, have a look at http://brick.im/ http://brick.im/
I use Brick on a tonne of different side projects, and there is a marked decrease in loading time. Brick uses Fastly, which is (arguably) a faster CDN than Google Webfonts and other webfont initiatives like Adobe Webfonts.
Also using Brick is another chance to ban Google from your web traffic as many are doing...Google is like a barnacle that is stuck to the web and is hard to remove entirely without them slurping some of your data
- tadfisher 11y agoUnfortunately, this is a Tragedy of the Commons issue, where the ever-expanding list of webfont hosts results in a detrimental experience for users, where otherwise a single popular host would result in a much higher likelihood of cache hits. Not saying you shouldn't use the best solution for you. In fact, I ship code that hits the Hoefler & Co. webfont CDN because it's the only source for the fonts we use.