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google-fonts-plugin weekly downloads statistics

By SirPole · npm · Webpack plugins

Webpack plugin that downloads fonts from Google Fonts and encodes them to base64.

View on npm Stale · Oct 17, 2026

google-fonts-plugin has 916 recorded weekly downloads on npm, an increase of 10.5% over the past 30 days, ranking #1409 of 2,256 tracked listings.

Weekly downloads
916
Official API · Oct 17, 2026
7-day growth
-37.7%
-555 weekly downloads
30-day growth
+10.5%
+87 weekly downloads
90-day growth
-45.3%
-758 weekly downloads
Rank
#1409
Among tracked npm listings

About google-fonts-plugin

Google Fonts Plugin

Webpack plugin that downloads fonts from Google Fonts and encodes them to base64.

Supports various font formats, currently eot, ttf, woff and woff2.

Exports to format specific css files, which you can serve to your clients.

Note: Current version works with Webpack 4. For webpack 3, use version 1.0.3

Install

Usage

webpack.config.js

webpack.config.js

Options

Plugin supports configuration in javascript object, json file and also in your package.json.

| Name | Type | Default | Description |

| fonts | Font[] | Roboto | Defines which fonts and it's variants and subsets to download. | | formats | String[] | woff, woff2 | Specifies which formats to download. Valid options are eot, ttf, woff and woff2. | | encode | Boolean | true | Whether should encode to base64. | | cache | Boolean | true | Whether FS caching should be checked before sending requests. | | fontDisplay | String | swap | When encode if false, this will add font-display property. Disables when empty. | | filename | String | [name].css | Defines filename template. Valid substitutions are [name], [hash], [chunkhash]. | | stats | Boolean | true | Collects basic statistics about options. You may opt out at any time by setting this to false |

Font object

| Name | Type | Default | Description |

| family | String | Roboto | Sets the font family | | variants | String[] | 400, 400i, 700, 700i | Sets the variants of the font family to download, note that not all fonts have all the possible variants | | subsets | String[] | latin-ext | Sets the subsets, note that not all fonts are available in all subsets | | text | String | | Only downloads specific characters contained in the string provided, more information here. Ignores subsets. |

Example configuration

config.json

Note: For Google's material icons, simply set Material Icons as font-family

Note: From version 5.0.0, neon support is dropped to simplify the plugin itself. If you've used neon before, parse it yourself and pass the resulting object to the plugin instead. See release notes for implementation example.

Description from the npm listing.

  • google
  • fonts
  • google-fonts
  • webpack-plugin
  • webpack

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Charts

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Adoption over time

google-fonts-plugin weekly downloads on npm, last 90 days: 916 weekly downloads as of Oct 17, 2026, -45.3% over 90 days.google-fonts-pluginWeekly downloads on npm · Last 90 days916downloads / week-45.3% over 90 days01K2K3K4K5KJul 19Aug 3Aug 18Sep 2Sep 17Oct 2Oct 17downloads / weekobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsJul 22, 2026 – Oct 17, 2026 · 88 observations · Updated Oc…pluginstats.com
google-fonts-plugin weekly downloads on npm, last 90 days: 916 weekly downloads as of Oct 17, 2026, -45.3% over 90 days.

7/30/90-day growth

google-fonts-plugin weekly downloads growth on npm: -37.7% over 7 days, +10.5% over 30 days, -45.3% over 90 days.google-fonts-pluginWeekly downloads growth on npm916downloads / week now7-day growth-555 weekly downloads-37.7%30-day growth+87 weekly downloads+10.5%90-day growth-758 weekly downloads-45.3%Growth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 17, 2026pluginstats.com
google-fonts-plugin weekly downloads growth on npm: -37.7% over 7 days, +10.5% over 30 days, -45.3% over 90 days.

Ranking history

google-fonts-plugin npm ranking history: currently #1409 (by weekly downloads).google-fonts-pluginnpm ranking · by weekly downloads · Last 90 days#1409current rank#1404#1405#1406#1407#1408#1409#1410#1411Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19rankOct 18, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 2 observations · Updated Oct 17, 2026pluginstats.com
google-fonts-plugin npm ranking history: currently #1409 (by weekly downloads).

Listing placement

All npm2,256 listings · 113 pages · 1,130 shown · page 71, #10 (overall #1,410)
All npm: every listing in weekly downloads order

Listing placement

Webpack plugins247 listings · 13 pages · page 3, #15 (overall #55)
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Recent observations

Full history (121)
Recent weekly downloads observations for google-fonts-plugin
Date (UTC)Weekly downloadsChange vs. previous
916-159
1,075-2
1,077-296
1,373-174
1,5470
1,547+36
1,511+40
1,471-84
1,555+110
1,445+73
1,372+4
1,368-260
1,628-251
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Data source

Weekly downloads (trailing 7 complete days) come from the official npm downloads API. Downloads include CI and mirrors and are not equivalent to installs or users. npm publishes no ratings.

Listing: https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-fonts-plugin. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 19, 2026. See the methodology.