Self-host Open Source fonts in neatly bundled NPM packages.
Fontsource
An updating monorepo full of self-hostable Open Source fonts bundled into individual NPM packages!
Our full documentation and search directory can be found here.
Self-hosting fonts can significantly improve website performance by eliminating the extra latency caused by additional DNS resolution and TCP connection establishment that is required when using a CDN like Google Fonts. This can help to prevent doubled visual load times for simple websites, as benchmarked here and here.
Fonts remain version locked. Google often pushes updates to their fonts without notice, which may interfere with your live production projects. Manage your fonts like any other NPM dependency.
Commit to privacy. Google does track the usage of their fonts and for those who are extremely privacy concerned, self-hosting is an alternative.
Your fonts load offline. This feature is beneficial for Progressive Web Apps and situations where you have limited or no access to the internet.
Support for fonts outside the Google Font ecosystem. This repository is constantly evolving with other Open Source fonts. Feel free to contribute!
API
Check out the documentation here.
Migrating from previous versions
See CHANGELOG.md for more details.
Adding New Fonts
For Open Source fonts that are not automatically updated by the Google ecosystem, we have a generic packager that builds CSS files for the project.
Make a request by creating an issue! If you wish to submit a PR yourself, check out the documentation on packaging the fonts yourself here.
Licensing
Always make sure to read the license for each font you use. Most of the fonts in the collection use the SIL Open Font License, v1.1. Some fonts use the Apache 2 license. The Ubuntu fonts use the Ubuntu Font License v1.0.
You can find their specific licenses on each package README.md.
Other Notes
Feel free to star and contribute new ideas to this repository that aim to improve the performance of font loading, as well as expanding the existing library we already have. Any suggestions or ideas can be voiced via an issue.