just wanted to share this awesome news with you – the new fontlibrary in the wp 6.5 core:
No Code, All Fonts thanks to the Font Library in WordPress 6.5
Explore the Font Library, a tool that streamlines font management. This feature is set to land for WordPress 6.5 on March 26th, 2024 and includes the following features:
– The Font Library operates globally, similar to the Media Library, allowing you to easily install, remove, and activate fonts across your entire site.
– Whether a font is installed by you or provided by your theme or plugin, the Font Library provides seamless selection across your editing experience.
– Google Fonts is integrated into the Font Library experience, offering a variety of typography options and quick uploads.
– This new ability empowers you to control a foundational aspect of your site’s design without the need for coding.
– Extenders can provide their own font collections and manage permissions, including turning the feature off.
Nice.
Keep in mind that each font weight is its own file, which can be anywhere from 30KB to 250KB – don’t do what she did in the YT video and select *all* the weights, for multiple fonts – you will tank your site loading speed.
Great power, great responsibility, yada yada
Is this just for FSE themes or classic/hybrid ones as well?
Can someone explain to a dummy like myself ? Does this mean we don’t need to load fonts anymore ? For performance impact ? meaning now I am loading them using a special tool
It’s nice news, but developer has to be aware that Google fonts usually include all languages, which makes them extremely heavy on page speed.
This document explains it in depth: https://blog.hubspot.com/website/web-safe-html-css-fonts