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Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for Google Fonts

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Re: Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for Google Fonts

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Why wouldn't I just self-host the fonts on my server? What are the benefits of such CDN? Years ago I could understand it because it may reduce latency (cache), but since browsers don't cache from 3rd party servers anymore, also this is argument is obsolet.

Re: Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for Google Fonts

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This looks really interesting, does anybody have an insight on whether or not all families on gfonts are also on bunny fonts?

Google Fonts: "1424 of 1424 families"

Bunny Fonts: "1429 families"

Presumably Bunny Fonts is, essentially, just a pass through to Google Fonts.

Re: Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for Google Fonts

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post #5

Why wouldn't I just self-host the fonts on my server? What are the benefits of such CDN? Years ago I could understand it because it may reduce latency (cache), but since browsers don't cache from 3rd party servers anymore, also this is argument is obsolet.

True that there's no 3rd party caching benefit anymore, but it's still just very convenient – select fonts a'la carte, copy the CSS/HTML snippet, paste it in, and that's it. All for free, no licensing considerations with Google Fonts.

Re: Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for Google Fonts

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On the font pages, they use this as the example sentence: > The quick brown bunny jumps over the lazy dog. While the site is trying to be quirky and cute, replacing 'fox' with 'bunny' doesn't showcase what 'f' and 'x' look like.

you can replace the text with whatever you wish though so it's not an issue
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