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Loading google fonts directly from the site instead of google servers

This topic has 7 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 2 years, 6 months ago ago by Rose Tyler

Clau8826

Participant

August 1, 2022 at 08:50

Hi,

I noticed your theme loads the fonts from the google severs instead of pushing them locally from the site.

Due to GDPR it is highly recommended to push the fonts from the site itself instead of google’s servers. As an example, Elementor does this, it pushes the fonts you choose as files from my site directly.

Recently there was a case where a webmaster was sued in Germany ( and he lost ) due to privacy issue , because he was using google fonts and loaidng them from google’s servers.

Any plans to change this in the near future?

Also on a side note i notice your theme css specifies the font used without any fallback. So if I where to use Opensans for body text then the css would be like font-family: Open Sans;
Instead of using a fallback to a system font like font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif; for example

Any plans on updating this in the future?

Thank you

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6 Answers

Rose Tyler

Support staff

August 1, 2022 at 12:17

Hello,

Do you use latest versions of the theme and Core plugin? https://www.8theme.com/documentation/xstore/theme-installation/theme-update/ https://www.8theme.com/documentation/xstore/plugins/plugins-update/
Are fonts selected in Theme Options > Typography?
Please provide URL of your site and screenshots to illustrate mentioned questions, then I will pass them to our dev team.

Regards

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Clau8826

Participant

August 2, 2022 at 11:30

Hi,
Sorry but i don’t understand why you replied in this way. Yes i use the latest versions you can also take a look at your own demos …. they have the same “issue”.

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Rose Tyler

Support staff

August 2, 2022 at 16:18

Hello,

Oh, I see, it is not an issue, but predefined behavior, because not all want to load fonts locally. In case you want to load local fonts, you can download the necessary font from the Google fonts and upload it to XStore > Custom Fonts. After that choose that local hosted font in the Typography settings of Theme Options.
About “Also on a side note i notice your theme css specifies the font used without any fallback. So if I where to use Opensans for body text then the css would be like font-family: Open Sans;
Instead of using a fallback to a system font like font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif; for example. Any plans on updating this in the future?”
– I will answer once get a reply from our dev team. Please be patient.

Regards

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Clau8826

Participant

August 2, 2022 at 22:58

Hi,
When I said “issue” i did not mean “bug” …
I guess “problem” was a more appropriate word
And I have explained why it is very important google fonts are loaded locally and not from google’s servers: because of legal reasons, due to GDPR rules.

People are already getting sued over this

Example : https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/31/website_fine_google_fonts_gdpr/

A website was fined by court because of this

This needs to be fixed and allow users to select to push the fonts locally or not. Downloading the fonts and manually uploading them is not a good fix to the problem at hand.

Thank you

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Rose Tyler

Support staff

August 4, 2022 at 07:55

Hello,

Right now we can offecr to use the custom fonts feature in our XStore Control Panel -> Custom fonts, only. After you upload the font you may select it in the list of Typography fonts (Theme Options -> Typography) -> http://prntscr.com/vobjsf . So that uploaded font will be loaded locally and as we understood you right it is the main question you asked us for.
About google font “problem” we will take a look closer and try to find the solution if it won’t break anything. Thanks for sharing the details.
We are ready to give you a refund if you are not satisfied with using our theme. Refund request can be submitted here – https://themeforest.net/refund_requests/new

Regards

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Rose Tyler

Support staff

August 4, 2022 at 08:51

Hello,

Improvement for fonts (sans-serif) will be added in the next theme update.

Regards

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