Google provider downloads variable fonts even when not required

[florian-lefebvre]

🐛 The bug

When downloading a family that has an available variable font with the default settings, the whole variable font is downloaded (https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900)

🛠️ To reproduce

https://stackblitz.com/edit/github-anxb2im8?file=index.js

🌈 Expected behaviour

When downloading a family that has an available variable font with the default settings, only the 400 weight should be downloaded (https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:ital,wght@0,400;1,400)

ℹ️ Additional context

I think the faulty logic lives here https://github.com/unjs/unifont/blob/main/src/providers/google.ts#L42, it should check the provided weights for .. first. I'd be happy to submit a PR

[qwerzl]

Yes, this has been the expected behavior, but we might need to re-think about the way to handle google's variable fonts instead of simply defaulting to the full-axis one. @danielroe what's your opinion on this?

[florian-lefebvre]

For context, I'm working on adding 1st party fonts support to Astro and we want the default to be as lightweight as possible

[ematipico]

Is there anything we can do to resolve this issue?