A large free type library that any site can load in one line.
Who it is for
For anyone who wants their site to stop looking like the browser default.
The catch
Loading fonts from another domain costs you a little speed, and it is one more third party in your page.
Where it sits in the stack
Google Fonts is filed under “Making the pages themselves good” in the stack directory. Its label there is the same one at the top of this page: listed, not tested. I have read its pricing and mechanics and have not run a project on it, so this page describes it and stops short of recommending it. That distinction is the whole point of the directory.
What has changed about its pricing
Nothing, as far as this site has recorded. Google Fonts has no entry in the price change log, which means either its pricing has held since this site started checking or nobody here has re-read it since the figure above was taken. The log distinguishes those two cases deliberately, and a tool with no entry is the weaker of them.
The alternatives in the same slot
These do the same job and sit in the same section of the directory.
- The tools on this site — i run this, has a free tier
- Squoosh — listed, not tested, has a free tier
- Fontshare — listed, not tested, has a free tier
- UptimeRobot — listed, not tested, has a free tier
The whole stack, filterable, with the catch stated on every entry.
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