Comment by rs186
It's not a single file with a simple line of CSS like in the old days. It's a bunch of files, so you need to make sure you do have all the files and understand how exactly these come together.
It's not a single file with a simple line of CSS like in the old days. It's a bunch of files, so you need to make sure you do have all the files and understand how exactly these come together.
Google fonts download button gives you a TTF file and not a WOFF2 file so you have to read the CSS to get the WOFF2 file.
I'm a very dedicated anti-Google person who's trying to move everything I can off of any kind of Google service, so I very much understand the desire to self-host. But I find it hard to find fault with Google here. "If you don't want to worry about hosting, here's a one-liner you can add to CSS that hosts it off our servers. If you want to do something else, here are the raw font files as a single click download, do whatever you like!". That seems perfectly reasonable to me, and it's a great service to improve typography on the web.