[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #42166: Bundle fonts used by default themes

[WordPress Trac]

#42166: Bundle fonts used by default themes
-------------------------+-----------------------------
 Reporter:  stefannagy   |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes       |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:               |
-------------------------+-----------------------------
 Please consider to not use the Google Fonts API in the default themes
 anymore. Website operators and visitors in most cases don't even know that
 they use Google services and pay with their data as soon as they install
 WP.

 It seems to be OK that these themes use fonts that only support latin
 languages. In my view it should also be ligitimate if only browsers with
 [https://caniuse.com/#feat=woff2 WOFF2] and [https://caniuse.com/#feat
 =font-unicode-range unicode-range] support can make use of these webfonts.

 If WP decided to bundle only the relevant WOFF2 subsets (with hints) the
 additional data volume should be acceptable and performance shouldn't
 suffer much. For a free software project it could be much worse to lose
 trust – WP already earned a '[https://bigbrotherawards.de/2017/tadelnde-
 erwaehnungen dispraising mention]' in this year's german Big Brother
 Awards…

--
Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42166>
WordPress Trac <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/>
WordPress publishing platform