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Home > Policy/Legislation > WordPress recommended switching to locally hosted webfonts

WordPress recommended switching to locally hosted webfonts

The WordPress team urged theme authors to use locally hosted webfonts instead of Google-hosted ones.


Erdem Yasar Erdem Yasar
June 23, 2022
1 min read
WordPress recommended switching to locally hosted webfonts

The WordPress team is now encouraging theme authors to update their themes and switch to locally hosted webfonts instead of Google-hosted ones. The recommendation came months after a German court fined a website that uses Google-hosted webfonts for the violation of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation. The decision can affect themes that use Google Fonts by enqueuing from Google CDN.

GDPR violation

More than 50 million websites are using Google-hosted webfonts.

Switching to locally hosted webfonts, enables websites to comply with GDPR. A regional court in Munich, Germany fined a website owner that uses Google Fonts €100. Google Fonts is currently hosting more than 1,300 font families used by more than 50 million websites. Using Google-hosted webfonts improves performance, but it reveals the users’ IP addresses, which is considered a violation of privacy. 

The WordPress team also stated that it will be discussed further at the next meeting whether the remotely hosted font is allowed in a theme as we move forward. The team stated that authors can use the Webfont-loader package in conjunction with the webfonts API, allowing them to download Google Fonts locally and then use them in the API.

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Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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