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There are some situations in which you have to sacrifice the usage of Google Fonts from Google’s servers on your website in favor of site performance or complying with local regulations.
Before completely disabling Google Fonts, you can download and host them on your server to avoid sending any visitor data to Google.
The following instructions will ensure 100% GDPR compliance.
First, make sure to update the WPZOOM Framework of your theme to the latest version, as this feature was introduced in version 1.9.15 of the framework.
1. Go to WPZOOM > Theme Options.
2. Navigate to Miscellaneous > Google Fonts section and tick the “Download & Host Google Fonts Locally” checkbox
3. Click the “Save All Changes” button.
That’s all!
Now, all Google Fonts used in your theme will no longer be loaded from fonts.googleapis.com (Google’s server for fonts), but from your website, as the theme will automatically detect fonts in use and download them.
Using the Google Fonts Checker tool, you can check if there are still any fonts hosted on Google’s servers.
Some plugins like Elementor, Recipe Card Blocks, or others also register Google Fonts, no matter your theme. You can either disable these from being loaded from each plugin’s settings page, or you can use the global option to disable all Google Fonts from your website, by ticking the “Disable and Remove Google Fonts Globally” checkbox and clicking the “Save All Changes” button:
Some of our older or discontinued themes do not support the above feature, so using a 3rd party plugin called OMGF to host Google Fonts locally is necessary. See the following method for details.
If the above method is unavailable or unsupported in your theme, you can get the same result using the OMGF plugin.
First, make sure to install and activate the OMGF plugin.
Go to the Settings > Optimize Google Fonts page and click on the Save & Optimize button at the bottom:
The plugin should automatically detect the currently used Google Fonts by your theme and save them on your server.
Now you can visit your website and check if all fonts look fine.
To ensure that no fonts are loaded from Google’s servers, just look in the source of a page and check if there aren’t any mentions of links containing this address: fonts.googleapis.com
Make sure not to disable Google Fonts completely using a method described below, as this will make it impossible for the OMGF plugin to detect which fonts are in use.
If you want to learn more about other options included in this plugin, please check their documentation.
If you prefer to disable Google Fonts completely and switch to system fonts, follow the instructions below.
1. Go to WPZOOM > Theme Options.
2. Navigate to the Miscellaneous > Google Fonts and tick the “Disable and Remove Google Fonts Globally” checkbox.
3. Click the “Save All Changes” button.
That’s all!
All Google Fonts registered by your theme are now disabled.
Now, you can choose a system font. This option will ensure excellent performance and good readability across all devices.
1. Go to Appearance > Customize.
2. Navigate to Typography
3. Click on Body.
Choose a system font (web-safe font) from Font Family:
Choosing the “Sans Serif” option, which is located at the top of the list with Standard Fonts, the following system font stack will be used:
font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;
Make sure to also tick the “Sync all fonts” option for your Body font, so this will be applied to all other typography options available in your theme.
