Typophiles like Google's CDN because it can have way more nuanced conditions about what exact font to load
But you don't have to use it, and yes for some reason that seems to be a lost art.
But you don't have to use it, and yes for some reason that seems to be a lost art.
Furthermore, Google Font subsets their fonts so that if you only use English, the other parts of the font that contain Greek, etc. won't load (via unicode-range CSS)