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Dev tools · December 27, 2014

Download and inline Google web fonts from the command-line

Webfont Downloader. Contribute to mmastrac/webfont-dl development by creating an account on GitHub.

Download and inline Google web fonts from the command-line launched on December 27, 2014 with 64 votes, #856 of 1,837 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

In plain words

webfont-dl is a command-line tool that downloads and inlines Google web fonts. It allows developers to fetch web fonts from Google's service and embed them directly into their projects rather than relying on external font hosting. The tool is hosted on GitHub and targets developers who want to manage web fonts locally or reduce external dependencies in their web projects.

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