Open-source web fonts, hosted in Europe
Many websites still load fonts from Google by default. WAYSCloud Fonts is built to offer a practical European alternative: open-source web fonts, hosted in Europe, with clear licensing, fast delivery and a simpler path away from third-party font calls.
With WAYSCloud Fonts, WAYSCloud is launching a practical European alternative: open-source web fonts, hosted in Europe, with clear licensing, fast delivery and a simpler migration path away from third-party font calls.
The service is built for developers, websites, apps and CMS users who want a more predictable and privacy-conscious way to serve fonts on the modern web.
A frontend dependency worth taking seriously
Fonts are often treated as a minor implementation detail. In practice, they are still infrastructure.
They influence browser requests, caching behavior, dependency boundaries and the overall predictability of how a site is delivered. For teams that want fewer unnecessary third-party calls and clearer control over what loads in the browser, that matters.
WAYSCloud Fonts is designed around that idea. Not as a generic font mirror, but as a structured delivery platform for open-source web fonts with European hosting, CDN-backed performance, clear provenance and explicit licensing per family.
Fonts may look like a small frontend detail, but they still shape privacy, dependency boundaries and operational clarity. WAYSCloud Fonts is built to make that part of the stack more predictable, transparent and easier to run from European infrastructure.
— Knut Michael Haugland, CEO of WAYSCloud
Built for privacy, performance and practical migration
WAYSCloud Fonts is designed to make adoption straightforward.
Developers can browse a curated catalog of open-source font families, inspect family-level licensing, review source details, use a CSS API for hosted delivery, and follow migration guidance for moving away from Google Fonts and similar third-party services.
The goal is not to make migration theoretical. It is to make it practical.
That includes fast delivery through CDN-backed infrastructure, modern web font formats, clear technical metadata and a product structure that is easy to understand from both a frontend and compliance perspective.
Clear licensing, visible provenance
A core part of WAYSCloud Fonts is clarity.
The platform focuses on open-source font families with explicit per-family license information, source provenance and structured technical metadata. Instead of treating fonts as anonymous assets, the product is designed to make it easier to understand what is being served, under which license, and from which upstream source.
That includes licensing pages, family details, specimen views, technical metadata and documentation for both hosted usage and self-hosting.
Familiar to developers
WAYSCloud Fonts is built to feel familiar to modern frontend teams.
The product includes a searchable public catalog, family pages, specimen views, migration guides and a CSS API designed around practical web use. It should be simple enough to use in minutes, while still feeling serious enough for production use.
For teams already relying on Google Fonts, the migration path is intended to be low-friction and developer-friendly.
Part of a broader European infrastructure direction
At WAYSCloud, Fonts is not just a standalone microsite. It reflects a broader product direction: making common infrastructure dependencies more transparent, more privacy-conscious and easier to operate from European foundations.
That applies not only to backend systems, but also to the frontend layer websites depend on every day.
WAYSCloud Fonts is now available at fonts.wayscloud.eu.