Jump to content
Chinese-Forums
  • Sign Up

Alternatives to Google Fonts inside GFW?


mungouk

Recommended Posts

Any web developers here using (Latin) web fonts inside the Great Firewall?

 

If so, what's the current thinking on alternatives to Google Fonts, other than downloading them from Github and hosting them yourself?

 

All my Google searches so far are throwing up outdated solutions like using the now-defunct fonts.useso.com, or "hey, fonts.googleapis.com works again now".

 

Thanks!

 

  • Good question! 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I was under the impression that the Google API serves different CSS depending on which browser you're using, which would mean some back-end processing as well as just hosting the files...?

 

This is actually for student projects rather than production websites, but it would be helpful to know what developers in PRC would typically use.

 

Maybe we'll just target one browser to simplify matters.

 

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 1 year later...

I made a list of free webfonts that I like. Here are the non-Google ones. I've included "@import" because I'm to lazy anc clumsy to use "@font-face."

 

@import url(https://sentyfont.com/index_htm_files/OzOceanBubble.ttf);
@import url(http://db.onlinewebfonts.com/c/12f525c880a52f5a3d85c27ac71266a5?family=HY+Cu+Zhuan+Traditional+Chinese);
@import url(http://db.onlinewebfonts.com/c/546ef565dfc336820ea5147450ef5197?family=HY+ShuTong+Traditional+Chinese);
@import url(http://db.onlinewebfonts.com/c/209cc623f7e199b28118233d2d3be7bb?family=STHeiti+TC+Light);
@import url(http://db.onlinewebfonts.com/c/9dadd41cd8d82c6dcfecd592cfbad4e8?family=Heiti+SC+Light);
@import url(http://db.onlinewebfonts.com/c/c81ad37f4fe5d970a2fbccf31ba5f6f6?family=Heiti+SC);
@import url(http://db.onlinewebfonts.com/c/91764cfbfb9049ea89665b0ac8f0ee41?family=Heiti+TC);
@import url(http://db.onlinewebfonts.com/c/209cc623f7e199b28118233d2d3be7bb?family=STHeiti+TC);
@import url(http://db.onlinewebfonts.com/c/0ba7db29f9f2b275516bb07240367237?family=STHeiti+T0C);
@import url(http://fonts.cdnfonts.com/css/venom-mincho);
@import url(http://fonts.cdnfonts.com/css/code2000);
@import url(http://fonts.cdnfonts.com/css/undotum);
@import url(http://fonts.cdnfonts.com/css/unbatang);
@import url(http://fonts.cdnfonts.com/css/kinryu);

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

For what it's worth, in the end I told my students to use https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/ to browse and find fonts they wanted to use, and then download them and host them as part of the website. 

 

This has the added benefit of them learning (usually the hard way) about using proper paths in their CSS. This site actually generates the @font-face declarations for you.

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and select your username and password later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Click here to reply. Select text to quote.

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...