How to host google web fonts on my own server?

Question

I need to use some google fonts on an intranet application. The clients may or may not have internet connection. Reading the license terms, it appears that its legally allo

Answer 1

The contents of the CSS file (from the include URL) depends on what browser I view it from. For example, when browsing to http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans using Chrome, the file only contained WOFF links. Using Internet Explorer (below), it included both EOT and WOFF. I pasted all the links into my browser to download them.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Open Sans';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  src: url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v6/cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3fY6323mHUZFJMgTvxaG2iE.eot);
  src: local('Open Sans'), local('OpenSans'), url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v6/cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3fY6323mHUZFJMgTvxaG2iE.eot) format('embedded-opentype'), url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v6/cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3T8E0i7KZn-EPnyo3HZu7kw.woff) format('woff');
}

When you host your own web fonts, you need to correctly link to each font type, deal with legacy browser bugs, etc. When you use Google Web Fonts (hosted by Google), Google automatically links to the correct font types for that browser.