Optimizing Google fonts load times and size

You can only request specific characters of a font by specifying them with &text= in your link tag! To determine the characters used just use the Feature Hype offers to include the text used in your document. Or make a general assumption based on you needs. Say, you have a clock only the numbers and whatever separator glyph could be requested. Read more here:

https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#optimizing_your_font_requests

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