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SHOULD YOU SELF-HOST GOOGLE FONTS?

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Self-hosting fonts can often be much more performant, but it requires careful implementation of web performance techniques like font-display: swap, subsetting, and removal of hinting. Google Fonts simplifies this process with its delivery mechanisms, but can come at a slight cost to performance.