v2 Google Fonts API?

[apreshill]

It looks like the embedded bootswatch themes currently use the v1 Google Fonts API that doesn't support variable fonts:

quarto-cli/src/resources/formats/html/bootstrap/themes/sketchy.scss

Line 169 in a14f4b3

$web-font-path: "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Neucha|Cabin+Sketch&display=swap" !default;

It doesn't seem to impact behavior of themes now, but something to be aware of is the v2 Google Fonts API uses a different base URL, see:
https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/css2

[jjallaire]

Interesting! Hopefully they will change that (or we could certainly also modify the bootswatch themes ourselves to do this).

[apreshill]

I know with pagedown I received this error using the old import API (which is how I discovered the change!)

  Failed to generate output. Reason: Failed to open https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Fira+Sans+Extra+Condensed+Mono:300,400,500 (HTTP status code: 400)

[dragonstyle]

I'm monitoring the themes development on their v5 branches and will keep things up to date in our tree. Before we ship it would be straightforward to make the call to modify the font references when we import them.