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Been annoyed by web fonts for a while. They’re big and they were connecting my blog to Google. I stumbled on modernfontstacks.com earlier today and now I’ve ditched my web fonts in favour of these. ~140kb shaved off the first load of my site. First impressions matter.

modernfontstacks.comModern Font StacksSystem font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. The fastest fonts available. No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes — just instant renders.

12/5/25, 9:15 pm15 reposts93 likes

jamie

@jamie.ideasasylum.com

12 May 2025

fwiw, Bunny has a Google Fonts compatible CDN: fonts.bunny.net/about and Cloudflare will even inline the fonts from Google: blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-f... though doesn’t solve the size issue

fonts.bunny.netAbout Bunny Fonts | Faster & GDPR friendly FontsStrengthen your privacy, improve your performance and give your website a personality by using Bunny Fonts. The only fully GDPR fonts powered by a CDN!

David Sainez

@davidsainez.com

12 May 2025

IIRC cloudflare fonts unfortunately break SSR: community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare...

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Cocreators OÜ

@cocreators.ee

13 May 2025

FontSource is a nice way to use actually good fonts without Google etc. and really the couple of hundred kB is *nothing* in terms of page load time nowadays. fontsource.org

fontsource.orgFontsourceDownload and self-host 1500+ open-source fonts in neatly bundled NPM packages. Access a comprehensive library of web typefaces for free.

Sam Rose

@samwho.dev

13 May 2025

Probably feels like something if you can’t afford or don’t have access to a fast internet connection.

Cocreators OÜ

@cocreators.ee

13 May 2025

What would you consider a "fast internet connection"?

merrua.bsky.social

@merrua.bsky.social

13 May 2025

It looks cool. What organization is behind it?

Democrat Cats

@democratcats.bsky.social

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Now, I do have one holdout that I’m annoyed by. In samwho.dev/turing-machi... I use media glyphs for the pause/play controls. Android does not ship with these glyphs in their system fonts, so I’m loading Noto icons for that. ~500kb for 4 icons 🫠 I’ll replace them with SVGs when I get time.