How to host your own fonts made simple
Channel: Kevin Powell
Date: 2021-01-13

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Hosting your own fonts is a good way to improve the performance of your site, and in this video we look at how to do it with @font-face including where you can find fonts from, and how to set them up to make your life as simple as possible.

Font Squirrel: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/

Say Goodbye to Google Fonts: https://wicki.io/posts/2020-11-goodbye-google-fonts/

My video on picking fonts: https://youtu.be/zUMAjJ88NJ0

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00:00 - Introdcution
00:59 - Font Squirrel
06:10 - Setting up @font-face
11:41 - Setting up local sources

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