We basically need to run a copy of http://fontcdn.org/

With a caching proxy back to Google CDN even maybe, so we get all the features.

A while ago I wrote this for another project I was working on, might have some use here:
{P4911}

I was just working on a log.io interface and had to remove all the google fonts. It looks so much worse :/

I'm willing to take this task if setting up a caching http proxy to https://fonts.googleapis.com and https://fonts.gstatic.com shall be an exception to Labs ToU #5.

Regarding licensing: Google said that All fonts are released under open source licenses.

In T110027#3332592, @zhuyifei1999 wrote:

I was just working on a log.io interface and had to remove all the google fonts. It looks so much worse :/

I'm willing to take this task if setting up a caching http proxy to https://fonts.googleapis.com and https://fonts.gstatic.com shall be an exception to Labs ToU #5.

Having a caching proxy for things like fonts would not be a violation of "Using Wikimedia Labs as a network proxy" in my opinion. That rule is about making an open proxy rather than a focused cache to improve visitor privacy.

We should just setup something similar to the https://cdnjs.com/ mirror that we run at https://tools.wmflabs.org/cdnjs/. The steps taken to set that up are documented in part at T96799: Provide a clone of cdnjs for toollabs users. The hard part as always is promoting the use of the new service once it has been setup.

Change 357878 had a related patch set uploaded (by Zhuyifei1999; owner: Zhuyifei1999):
[operations/puppet@production] tools-static: add /fontcdn/ to reverse-proxy to Google Fonts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/357878

Change 357878 merged by Rush:
[operations/puppet@production] tools-static: add /fontcdn/ to reverse-proxy to Google Fonts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/357878

Change 368213 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis; owner: Bryan Davis):
[operations/puppet@production] wmcs: Update tools-static reverse proxy rules for Google fonts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/368213

Change 368213 merged by Rush:
[operations/puppet@production] wmcs: Update tools-static reverse proxy rules for Google fonts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/368213

Change 368226 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis; owner: Bryan Davis):
[operations/puppet@production] wmcs: Fix double Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers for tools-static

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/368226

Change 368226 merged by Rush:
[operations/puppet@production] wmcs: Fix double Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers for tools-static

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/368226

Mirroring the fontcdn web interface repo to R2118