== Fonts ==
<span class="problem">Fonts are an important part of the style of a website. Google has cynically made it incredibly easy to utilize any of a huge number of fonts on websites, but it comes with a price: what they get in exchange for this, is the ability to track your visitors. It is therefore important to the privacy of your visitors to ensure that you do not use Google fonts in your website. There are two ways to avoid this. If using specific fonts is a priority, the best way to do this is to simply host the fonts on your own server, so that no third-parties receive data about your visitors through your fonts. Since this solution requires some level of comfort in handling your website’s files, if you are comfortable with having some users fall back on default web fonts, then you can simply “font stack,” and rely on the user’s own system fonts to do the job.</span>
The Font is == Replacements == <span class="intro">To remove Google Fonts from your website and self-host instead, you will need to upload the fonts you want to use to your server. Some services for selecting and downloading or purchasing fonts are listed below. You will then enter the shape CSS and HTML files of your pages and search for all references to font-face or font-family and remove them. You will then replace these references with a direct link to your self-hosted font. Typically, when you download fonts to use for your website, you will receive a folder of several variations of the letter appearing font – this allows the font to be rendered in the various formats and browsers. You may receive .eot, .woff, and .ttf files. </span> <h3 class="title entry solution-1">Fontello</h3><span class="link entry solution-1">http://fontello.com/</span><span class="description entry solution-1">Fontello is a collection of icons that you can download and self-host on your website to call on as you would a font.</span> <h3 class="title entry solution-2">Font Squirrel</h3><span class="link entry solution-2">https://www.fontsquirrel.com/</span><span class="entry solution-2 description">Font Squirrel is a popular service which enables you to download fonts to self-host on your website as specified above.</span> <h3 class="title entry solution-3">Practical Typography</h3><span class="link entry solution-3">https://practicaltypography.com/free-fonts.html</span><span class="entry solution-3 description">Practical Typography provides a small selection of open license fonts to download and self-host on your websiteas specified above. A web developer designing </span> <p><h4> Detail information on how to stay with local fonts</h4>Once you upload these fonts, you can call on them in the pagesfollowing manner in your CSS files. For instance, if you wanted to use Open Sans on your website, tried you would add the following to pick the best based on top of your CSS file: <pre>@font-face { font-family: 'Open Sans'; src: url('opensans-regular.eot'); src: url('opensans-regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('opensans-regular.woff') format('woff'), url('opensans-regular.ttf') format('truetype'), url('opensans-regular.svg#open_sansregular') format('svg'); font-weight: normal; font-style : normal;}</pre> You will want to make sure that all of the urls to the fonts include any directories that you may have placed the fonts in. You may notice I have referred to a sans-serif and readabilitya serif font. Our devices Keep that in mind. Now that you have many specified your fonts, but you can call on them throughout your CSS file wherever a font is called. Do this by searching for a web developer“font-family” in the document, a lots of timeand replace whatever that field contains with the following, is simpler pick a themedepending on which font you want to call. Because of technical reasons To call on the serif font, Gyou can simply change the text along the lines below. begun to serve these When you include “serif” at the end, this is called font-stacking, and it’s a useful back-up in case there are compatibility issues with your font from its own Cloud.displaying in your visitor’s browser:
<pre>font-family: 'Liberation Serif''Follow the money!''' Google serve fonts, Theme developer uses these fonts, web developer pick themes, web owner pay the web developer, users of the web page are tracker by Google when they navigate on the pages, Google profit on studying users behavior.serif;</pre>
== Replacements ==When you want to call on your sans serif font, you could do something like this: <pre>font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;</pre>
To remove Even though you have uploaded your favorite fonts to your server, if you do not want to automatically default to the Google system default fonts in the websiteshould your font fail, you should find can do further font-stacking with common fonts. Simply call on the fonts in your order of preference as explained below, keeping your self-hosted font as the .css and .html files all first font in the reference to a 'stack.ttf' inclusion (yes this is difficult on purpose, figure out our target audicene and the amount of web developing resources is still a point to address)
=== Fontello ===<h4>Alternative: using Web safe fonts</h4>
link: httpIf specifying fonts is not a high priority for you, an easier solution is to font-stack with “web safe” fonts. These are common fonts that you list in order of preference, typically in a list ending either in “serif” or “sans-serif” as a back-up, as seen above. For instance, if you want your user to see the Georgia font, but are comfortable with any serif font displaying, then in your CSS and HTML files, you can simply remove all references to the Google fonts as above, and state something like this wherever a font is called (search for any reference to “font-family”)://fontello.com/
text<pre>font-family: Fontello is a collection of icons and you can download your package ‘Georgia’, ‘Times New Roman’, serif;</pre>
=== Font Squirrel ===If the user’s system contains the Georgia font, that should display, if not, it will fall back on Times New Roman, or finally on the system-default serif font. List your favorite web-safe serif or sane-serif fonts according to similarity and preference. W3 has a useful article[https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp] listing and displaying web safe fonts for you to choose from.
link: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/That's it! You've liberated your website and visitors from a Google tracker!
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