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google-webfonts-helper
TypeScript2015–2022
majodev / google-webfonts-helper

google-webfonts-helper

A Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts. Get eot, ttf, svg, woff and woff2 files + CSS snippets

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What it is

A Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts. Get eot, ttf, svg, woff and woff2 files + CSS snippets

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-04-10 15:59:28 UTC to 2022-11-26 23:14:26 UTC.

01232015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

6 sources
majodev·Nov 26, 2022
Just moved off my 8 years old project google-webfonts-helper https://github.com/majodev/google-webfonts-helper from their free tier to my own private infra and replaced the current dyno with a 301 handler: https://github.com/kenmickles/heroku-redirect AFAIK sadly Heroku does not provide some other _free_ permanent redirect option for their *.herokuapp.com sub-domains without actually running a dyno there.
In Remind HN: Heroku will delete all free dbs and shut down all free dynos Monday
commoner·Feb 20, 2020
Decentraleyes is an excellent add-on that improves browsing speed and privacy with no negative side effects. Currently, the only font cached by Decentraleyes is Noto Sans. It also caches Google's Web Font Loader script and many major JavaScript frameworks. https://decentraleyes.org https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes Web developers who are concerned about privacy exposure from Google Fonts can use google-webfonts-helper to extract the font files and self-host them. https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts https://github.com/majodev/google-webfonts-helper
In Google Fonts Analytics
rhblake·Jul 24, 2015
> The request for the code contains a referring url which tells the entity hosting the script who is visiting your pages and which pages they are visiting (this goes for all externally hosted content (fonts, images etc), not just javascript) This can now be mitigated thanks to Referrer Policy [0]: "The simplest policy is No Referrer, which specifies that no referrer information is to be sent along with requests made from a particular settings object to any origin. The header will be omitted entirely." Voilà: <meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer"> It's a W3C draft, but it's supported by latest FF/Chrome/Safari, and Microsoft Edge [1], although currently, with Edge, you'll want to use the legacy keyword "never" instead. (AFAIK "never" works with all the aforementioned browsers.) > Google analytics junkies in particular will have to
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weigh whether they feel their users privacy is more important to them than their ability to analyze their users movements on the site. There's a nice alternative - Piwik [2]. It's very much like GA, but GPL and self-hosted, and with various options for privacy [3]. You can even use it without cookies, if you don't mind the somewhat reduced accuracy and functionality. Regarding fonts from Google Fonts, it's super-easy to host them yourself. There's a nice bash script [4] that downloads the font you want in all its formats/weights and generates the proper CSS. There's also the google-webfonts-helper service [5], and Font Squirrel has a webfont generator [6]. [0] https://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/referrer-policy/ [1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn904194%28v=vs.85%... [2] https://piwik.org/ [3] https://piwik.org/docs/privacy/ [4] https://github.com/neverpanic/google-font-download [5] https://github.com/majodev/google-webfonts-helper [6] http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator
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