google-webfonts-helper VS Anchr

google-webfonts-helper

• Google Fonts
  1 project | /r/webdev | 8 Jul 2023
• App that lets you see a reddit user pics that I wrote in my free time
  1 project | /r/DevelEire | 4 Feb 2023

  I use https://gwfh.mranftl.com/ to grab the fonts and CSS for local use.

• Deno Fresh Getting Started: Islands, APIs & Testing
  1 project | dev.to | 3 Feb 2023

  If you do want to self-host the fonts, there is a handy Web Fonts helper which generates the CSS and lets you download the .woff2 files you’ll need.

• Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
  95 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2023

  google webfonts helper - https://gwfh.mranftl.com

  According to the Cloudflare December monthly stats, I had roughly 57k unique users, 15m requests, 1,3TB traffic. Though, most requests are likely to be bots/integrators spamming the API...

  Running on a bare metal k8s cluster (libvirt) on top of a single dedicated Hetzner server, ~70€/month. Not going to monetize it, but will maybe accept donations/sponsorings in the future...

• Just launched my first svelte project! An opensource alternative to Google Fonts, with a focus on variable fonts. Coming from a React background Svelte has been absolutely amazing to work with.
  2 projects | /r/sveltejs | 16 Jan 2023

  However I felt like this solution is quite opionated, and therefore I'd like to promote a different non-opionated solution (if anyone haven't heard of it yet) to get any font plus minimalistic styles: https://github.com/majodev/google-webfonts-helper

• Remind HN: Heroku will delete all free dbs and shut down all free dynos Monday
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2022

  Just moved off https://github.com/majodev/google-webfonts-helper today from their free tier to my own private infra and replaced current the Heroku dyno with a 301: https://github.com/kenmickles/heroku-redirect

  AFAIK sadly Heroku does not provide some other _free_ permanent redirect option for *.herokuapp.com apps without actually running a dyno there.

• How to Remove Google Fonts from WordPress
  1 project | /r/Wordpress | 28 Oct 2022

  Let me throw in this little life safer here, that generates the CSS and bundles the font files for you: https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/

• Self-Hosting Fonts - No more excuses
  4 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2022

  As an alternative there is the google-webfonts-helper. It can be used online and regardless of the operating system.

• 10 ways to speed up web font loading
  2 projects | dev.to | 10 Feb 2022

  As you can see, the font loading with Google Fonts can be complicated. However, you can reduce how many requests are needed to just one by self-hosting the font and putting the @font-face declaration inside your CSS bundle instead of an external stylesheet. A tool like Google Webfonts Helper can be helpful for this.

• Google Webfonts Helper – Self-Hosting Google Fonts
  1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 7 Dec 2021

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