Malte Ubl

Perfect-ish font fallbacks

https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/high-performance-web-font-loading/#tool%3A-perfect-ish-font-fallbacks

a tool that automatically matches the fallback font to the custom font–because computers are good at that stuff.

The tool allows you to select every Google Font from a select menu.

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