google-webfonts-helper
Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts. Get eot, ttf, svg, woff and woff2 files + CSS snippets.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 1 commit in the last 90 days, latest release v1.7.2 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Miscellaneous: ChatGPT alternatives, DeepL alternatives.
At a glance
google-webfonts-helper quick facts
- Health score
- 53/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 13,075
- Last commit
- 29 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.7.2, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
google-webfonts-helper scores 53/100, #66 of 77 in Miscellaneous: 1 commit in the last 90 days earns 1.2 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.7.2, 29 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 13,075 stars add 16.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 33.8 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 1.2 / 35
1 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v1.7.2 released 29 days ago
- Stars 16.5 / 20
13k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 1
- Last 90 days
- 1
- Last 12 months
- 29 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #66 of 77 tools in Miscellaneous by health , between Digiface (#65) and Digitranscode (#67) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Nodejs |
| Latest release | v1.7.2 · 29 days ago |
| Stars | 13,075 |
| Open issues | 60 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | majodev/google-webfonts-helper ↗ |
google-webfonts-helper vs its top 5 alternatives
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| penpot | 99 | 62k | MPL-2.0 | today |
| Reactive Resume | 99 | 45k | MIT | today |
| Anubis | 98 | 24k | MIT | yesterday |
| Infisical Community Edition | 98 | 30k | MIT | today |
| DOCAT | 80 | 912 | MIT | 2 days ago |
| google-webfonts-helper (this tool) | 53 | 13k | MIT | 29 days ago |
google-webfonts-helper: common questions
Is google-webfonts-helper still maintained?
google-webfonts-helper had 1 commit in the last 90 days and its last push was 29 days ago; the latest tagged release, v1.7.2, is from 29 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.