Google Fonts is evil and violate GDPR

Why Google Fonts is evil

  1. Google Fonts isn’t Open source
  2. https://practicaltypography.com/why-google-fonts-arent-really-open-source.html
  3. A German court fined a website owner for including web fonts hosted on the Google Fonts service. By using the service, the website owner had exposed the IP addresses of visitors to Google without the visitor’s consent, which the court deemed a violation of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

More resources

  1. https://andersnoren.se/goodbye-to-google-fonts/
  2. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/02/07/german-court-fines-site-owner-sharing-user-data-with-google-to-access-web-fonts/

Alternative

  1. Bunny Fonts – https://bunny.net/fonts/