Google Fonts
Attention: If your website uses Google fonts, you should read this to the end. If your website does not meet these new legal requirements in this regard, you may have problems and they are no joke, especially if you run a company in Germany, but this regulation will also be enforced in other EU countries – it’s just a matter of time.
What are Google Fonts? In general, people outside the web design industry do not know what Google Fonts are. Every website is filled with text, and font is nothing more than the font style used on the website. There are countless fonts. Due to the fact that uploading so-called fonts to the site was a time-consuming process in the past, requiring many operations, modifications of the code, Google thought up that it would provide the world with several hundred free fonts.
Google Fonts
Google fonts are now, for the most part, an integral part of most website templates. This means that the person designing a website does not have to go through the countless number of fonts, let alone pay for them. In the past, one had to buy or download a font, upload it to the server via an FTP client, and then modify the CSS code of the website to add this font and style individual elements of the site so that the text displayed on it was reflected using this specific font style. It looked something like this:
Isn’t it simple and pleasant?
This is how life was for a web developer who, with great effort, created a website in a notebook by adding all the necessary elements, uploading the appropriate fonts, and styling the site in CSS.
Nowadays, there are constructions such as WordPress and countless free and paid templates that automatically include Google Fonts. The task of the website designer is only to choose an appropriate font style from the template panel and assign it to specific elements on the site, e.g. H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 headers or so-called “body” – text used between such headings.
Everything was easy and pleasant until the EU bureaucracy complicated things by creating another set of regulations that make life difficult for website owners.
If you have a website that uses Google Fonts and did not know what the German bureaucracy had cooked up this time, be sure to check with your webmaster which fonts are being used on your site and whether they are loaded from Google’s servers or locally:
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