I used this tool many times to download fonts and host them directly for a number of reasons:
- Avoid Google tracking / cookies
- Offline access (software for museums / exhibitions)
- Development even while offline
- Fonts can get updated, and updates sometimes affect letter geometry. I'd like to test before updating things to my users.
However, word of warning: I found at least one broken font. "Exo 2" has noticeable clipped sections where two curves overlap. Make sure to check your fonts... specially since, if you have the TTF downloaded from Google Fonts installed in the computer you're testing with, you might not see the text as your users do.
(Possibly Google Fonts is serving different CSS specific to macOS user agents as a current workaround.)
Fontsource (which is similar to this tool but packaged as npm packages and I found mentioned in another thread here) is similarly aware of the issue and suggests the current macOS workaround is to enable it as a Variable Font with slightly different CSS: https://github.com/fontsource/fontsource/issues/243
(They don't enable fonts as variable fonts in their default CSS because of different browser issues with variable fonts.)
- Avoid Google tracking / cookies
- Offline access (software for museums / exhibitions)
- Development even while offline
- Fonts can get updated, and updates sometimes affect letter geometry. I'd like to test before updating things to my users.
However, word of warning: I found at least one broken font. "Exo 2" has noticeable clipped sections where two curves overlap. Make sure to check your fonts... specially since, if you have the TTF downloaded from Google Fonts installed in the computer you're testing with, you might not see the text as your users do.