Title: Understanding custom fonts
Last modified: June 20, 2021

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# Understanding custom fonts

 *  Resolved [ZNMAC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/znac/)
 * (@znac)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-custom-fonts/)
 * First of all, I would like to thank the Neve team for providing this free version.
   I’m excited about the neve theme. For my private site I will use Neve in the 
   2.11.6 free version on WordPress 5.7.2. I use WordPress in german, perhaps the
   english WP terms may not right, so please excuse me.
 * I’m currently looking for information about images and fonts in WordPress and
   questions arise while reading. One of these is how Neve treats fonts.
 * I already understand following: Neve uses the system font after installing. As
   soon as I switch to one of the existing Google fonts, the font is loaded from
   the external Google font server (fonts.Googleapis.com + fonts.gstatic.com). However,
   due to the GDPR issue, such an automatic connection to external font ressource
   in the background should not established.
 * [“Add a font by creating a child theme”](https://docs.themeisle.com/article/1312-how-to-use-a-custom-font-in-neve)
   describes how to create a locally hosted font in a child theme.
 * Question 1: As far as I understand, however, this only applies to additional 
   new fonts that are not yet in Neve, right? But what do I do if I want to host
   locally an existing Google font in Neve?
 * Question 2: Do I understand it right that the mother theme loaded first and then
   the child theme? Can it happen that if the mother theme is loaded, a connection
   to the Google font server is established and after the child theme is loaded,
   the connection is broken?

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 *  Theme Author [Themeisle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themeisle/)
 * (@themeisle)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-custom-fonts/#post-14973712)
 * Hi [@znac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/znac/),
 * It’s true that the child theme loads after the parent theme. It is possible to
   avoid requesting a font to the Google API when using Neve.
 * You can download the desired font and upload it on the website so it can be used
   directly in the Customizer options of the Neve theme with a free plugin Orbit
   Fox, [details here](https://docs.themeisle.com/article/1311-custom-fonts-orbit-fox-module).
 * The premium version of the theme also addresses this aspect, it has a performance
   module that allows local hosting of Google fonts.
 * We hope this will help. Have a nice day!
    -  This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by [Themeisle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themeisle/).

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