Streamline your web font requests: introducing “text=”- Google Developers Blog
May 10, 2011
Summary
Introduced the "text=" parameter for the Google Font API, enabling developers to specify a subset of characters to be loaded, thereby reducing bandwidth usage and improving font loading performance.
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