Self-hosting fonts explained (including Google fonts) // @font-face tutorial

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Google fonts are great, but often self-hosting them is a better choice, or if you’re in parts of Europe, it might be your only choice, so in this video I take a look at the basics of how to self-host fonts. 🔗 Links ✅ Font Squirrel Webfont Generator: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator ⌚ Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 01:05 - Getting fonts from Google fonts 02:03 - The problem with downloaded Google fonts 02:30 - Converting from .ttf to .woff and .woff2 05:35 - Adding the fonts to a project 06:36 - Setting up @font-face rules to use the fonts in our CSS #css -- Come hang out with other dev's in my Discord Community 💬 https://discord.gg/nTYCvrK Keep up to date with everything I'm up to ✉ https://www.kevinpowell.co/newsletter Come hang out with me live every Monday on Twitch! 📺 https://www.twitch.tv/kevinpowellcss --- Help support my channel 👨‍🎓 Get a course: https://www.kevinpowell.co/courses 👕 Buy a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/making-the-internet-awesome 💖 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kevinpowell --- My editor: VS Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/ --- I'm on some other places on the internet too! If you'd like a behind the scenes and previews of what's coming up on my YouTube channel, make sure to follow me on Instagram and Twitter. Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinJPowell Codepen: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/ Github: https://github.com/kevin-powell --- And whatever you do, don't forget to keep on making your corner of the internet just a little bit more awesome!