Fonts

With the release of Publii version 0.39.0, there has been a big change in our themes regarding the way fonts are loaded. Previously, the Google font loaded directly from its CDN. However, since the majority of browsers have now blocked resource-caching from transferring across domains, users will need to redownload the font files for every site they visit that uses the same font, regardless of whether it was downloaded and cached previously from another site. Even more importantly, the EU court has deemed that Google Fonts (loaded directly from its CDN) are not compliant with the GDPR, which requires consent to be sought before any personally-identifiable information can be collected and stored.

Due to these changes, all fonts provided by Publii will from now on be loaded locally (self-hosting), which confers a few benefits to our earlier solution:

Avoids an Extra DNS Lookup
Removes Non-Minified CSS
Provides Better Control over Cache Settings
Complies with the GDPR

Variable fonts

To reduce the number of font files as well as to provide greater control over them, our themes come with variable fonts only. With variable fonts, instead of loading a normal and bold version of the font, Publii will only load a single file. This is important because Publii allows for two different fonts to be loaded; if both a standard and bold version of each of these fonts was included on the site, the total weight (that is, download size) of the files would be too much and could negatively affect load times.

Another advantage of using variable fonts is that now we can manipulate their size across the full range; instead of only being able to choose between displaying the font at 400 (normal) or 700 (bold), we can choose to display a given font at a seemingly random size such as 436, which affords us even greater control when customizing the style of our site.

Pretty great, isn't it?

One more thing to be aware of; you may have noticed that we have omitted some very popular fonts like “Open Sans” or “Noto Sans” from the fonts included in Publii. We made the decision to not include these fonts as their weight (size) is a bit too big, which in our opinion is not acceptable when trying to build a lightweight static website such as Publii is designed for.

The list of available fonts with their specification

Below you can find the list of all fonts used in our themes, including their typeface, weight, or size.

Name	Type	Weight range	Size
Andada Pro	serif	400 - 840	106 KB
Antonio	sans-serif	100 - 700	37 KB
Archivo Narrow	sans-serif	400 - 700	37 KB
Asap	sans-serif	400 - 700	57 KB
Besley	serif	400 - 900	49 KB
Big Shoulders Display	cursive	100 - 900	82 KB
Bitter	serif	100 - 900	108 KB
Brygada 1918	serif	400 - 700	89 KB
Cairo	sans-serif	200 - 900	74 KB
Comfortaa	cursive	300 - 700	80 KB
Dancing Script	cursive	400 - 700	59 KB
Domine	serif	400 - 700	40 KB
Dosis	sans-serif	200 - 800	47 KB
Exo	sans-serif	100 - 900	54 KB
Faustina	serif	300 - 800	49 KB
Glory	sans-serif	100 - 800	42 KB
Gluten	cursive	100 - 900	79 KB
Heebo	sans-serif	100 - 900	41 KB
JetBrains Mono	monospace	100 - 800	71 KB
Jura	sans-serif	300 - 700	78 KB
Karla	sans-serif	200 - 800	42 KB
Kreon	serif	300 - 700	33 KB
Lemonada	cursive	300 - 700	81 KB
Libre Franklin	sans-serif	100 - 900	44 KB
Lora	serif	400 - 700	83 KB
Manuale	serif	300 - 800	76 KB
Manrope	sans-serif	100 - 900	53 KB
Merriweather Sans	sans-serif	300 - 800	93 KB
Montserrat	sans-serif	100 - 900	125 KB
Nunito	sans-serif	200 - 900	100 KB
Oswald	sans-serif	200 - 700	66 KB
Petrona	serif	100 - 900	86 KB
Playfair Display	serif	400 - 900	106 KB
Public Sans	sans-serif	100 - 900	40 KB
Quicksand	sans-serif	300 - 700	52 KB
Raleway	sans-serif	100 - 900	128 KB
Red Hat Mono	monospace	300 - 700	29 KB
Roboto Slab	serif	100 - 900	117 KB
Rubik	sans-serif	300 - 900	77 KB
Ruda	sans-serif	400 - 900	38 KB
Smooch Sans	sans-serif	100 - 900	41 KB
Source Code Pro	monospace	200 - 900	85 KB
Spartan	sans-serif	100 - 900	44 KB
Urbanist	sans-serif	100 - 900	38 KB
Yanone Kaffeesatz	sans-serif	200 - 700	53 KB