WEweb007·Feb 23, 2020
Another reason to self-host: Google will gladly change the font characteristics out from under you.
https://github.com/JulietaUla/Montserrat/issues/60#issuecomm...
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5 sourcesGoogle fonts gives designers a one finger salute with latest Montserrat update
Amazing how a project in good standing can quickly sink with one uncontrolled employee. Montserrat designer issued a major update which in turn has changed all websites that import the font from Google font project. fonts.google.com
The project manager instead of rectifying the issue and releasing version 2 of the font, went ahead and ignored all the designers and telling them to host the font on their own instead.
https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1308
https://github.com/JulietaUla/Montserrat/issues/60
4 points · Open discussionI find this a bit confusing. Montserrat is distributed under an open license [1] which allows commercial redistribution "as long as they [fonts] are not sold by themselves". If people want to use a specific version - and clearly, they feel very strongly about it - why not host it themselves?
[1] https://github.com/JulietaUla/Montserrat/blob/master/OFL.txt
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37 points · Open discussionBrick.im[1] hosts free fonts on Fastly's CDN. Fonts are directly converted from their sources to .woff only; doesn't support other font formats. No subsetting means the fonts can be very large, especially those with full OpenType features.
Most of the fonts are of the latest version though. Fonts not included in Google Fonts, like Linux Libertine/Biolinum, Aileron, and Heuristica are included.
If you don't mind the performance hit, you can use it.
[1]: http://brick.im
EDIT: As for where you can find the new versions of the fonts, you can browse through brick.im's Font repository[2] and click on the `SOURCE` files.
The new Montserrat versions are located here: https://github.com/JulietaUla/Montserrat/
[2]: https://github.com/alfredxing/brick/tree/gh-pages/_fonts
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