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Google Fonts seems to only offer fonts in WOFF2.
While this works fine with Chrome, WOFF2 doesn't seem to be supported by many other browsers
Is there a way to directly link to Google fonts hosted on their CDN in a format other than WOFF2?
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While there is not a mainstream CDN for all the formats, you can use http://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com to download the font files and host them yourselves.
Fonts in WOFF may be licensed from several commercial foundries, including FontShop (WebFont end user license), FontFont, Monotype/Linotype/ITC fonts from Fonts.com Webfonts and the Adobe Webfonts type library, as well as fonts from many other foundries, from TypeKit.
With Firefox, Opera, IE and now Chrome all supporting WOFF, designers may soon be able to add just about any font to any webpage. If you'd like to know more about WOFF, plus see examples of its use, head over to the original announcement on the Mozilla Hacks blog.
Microsoft Windows 7–10Close any open applications that will use fonts. Unzip the folder containing the fonts. Right click on the font file and select Install.
Unfortunately Google does not offer an easy way to directly download fonts. You can browse the git repository to search for the file you want, though there are only TTF files on GitHub available.
Also, do not directly link to the GitHub hosted fonts in your CSS! GitHub serves the files with the wrong mime type, which causes issues in some browsers.
While there is not a mainstream CDN for all the formats, you can use http://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com to download the font files and host them yourselves.
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