Open Fonts

TL;DR: Open Fonts is a free, privacy-respecting platform to use open source fonts on your website. It's really easy to set up. --- If you're anything like me, you're always finding yourself coding new micro-sites and might be a bit of a font nerd. Each time I made a new website, I found myself stuck with two options—download and host font files on the same server as the site, or use a platform like Google Fonts. Hosting fonts with the site can be a pain, as it takes a while to set up each time when I could be focusing on what really matters, content. Using Google Fonts, while convenient, has the downside of being a privacy threat to my site's visitors and myself. Google offers these fonts for free for a reason, using their content delivery network (CDN) to spy on user activity and form tracking networks through something as seemingly innocent as fonts. I'm offering them for free as an attempt to help other developers use open source tools. While working on a solution, I realized how this could be useful to others as well. I'm very excited to release Open Fonts, a decentralized and open source font hosting platform. It's fast, takes very little effort to set up, and has step-by-step guides so web developers of every skill level can take advantage. I hope others will find this tool useful as well. If you have any suggestions or issues, please let me know! Let's make Open Fonts better, together.

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