google-webfonts-helper
Download and self-host Google Fonts with CSS snippets
google-webfonts-helper is a web app and JSON API that helps you self-host fonts from Google Fonts. It lets you select a font family, variants, subsets, and formats, then generates downloadable font files and copy-ready CSS for local hosting.
Key Features
- Web interface to browse Google Fonts and customize subsets, styles, and variants
- Downloads fonts as zipped packages in multiple formats (eot, ttf, svg, woff, woff2)
- Generates CSS snippets for local hosting with proper @font-face declarations
- Public JSON API endpoints to list fonts and fetch downloadable assets programmatically
- Container-friendly deployment with prebuilt images and environment-based configuration
Use Cases
- Improve privacy and compliance by serving fonts from your own infrastructure
- Reduce third-party dependencies and improve page performance through local caching
- Automate font asset generation in build pipelines using the JSON API
Limitations and Considerations
- Requires a Google Fonts Developer API key to fetch font metadata and file URLs
- Some dependencies are deprecated; the project mitigates this with minimal, rootless production images
google-webfonts-helper is a practical utility for developers who want reproducible, privacy-conscious font hosting without manually extracting files and writing CSS by hand.
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