Use Google Fonts' "text" parameter to limit the font characters to fetch

[asger-finding]

The text images are excessively large since all characters in the font are loaded. By including a text url parameter, detailing what characters are used, the google font can be scaled down in size significantly.

For example, https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=IBM+Plex+Mono&text=fo will only deliver the f and o characters, which can spell out foo, but not bar nor Foo.
It'd be neat if this was automated on the back-end of course.

It should be noted that I managed to reduce the file size of my readme-typing from 150kb to 5kb.

[DenverCoder1]

This is a very neat idea! I didn't know about this, but this can definitely increase the performance in many ways.

It seems like with this method, fetching the Google Fonts from the API takes 2-4 times less time than the database in many cases since it doesn't need to fetch all the different scripts.

I think I may even remove the font database connection entirely and just use the API with the text parameter.

[DenverCoder1]

Thanks @asger-finding! Let me know what you think of the proposed solution.

[asger-finding]

Super neat!