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google-fonts woff2 user-agent subsetting webfonts headless build

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Google Fonts css2 text= subsetting returns TTF unless the request carries a Chrome User-Agent

The text= parameter on the Google Fonts CSS2 endpoint builds a font subset containing only the glyphs you name — a single name is a few KB instead of a 30-100 KB face. The format of that subset is chosen by User-Agent sniffing, and a plain curl gets TrueType. Why this bites: agents and build…

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