For anyone who uses Ebook readers, desktop fonts don’t always work well. I just came across a modified font called Libron. I use the awesome KOReader[1] on a Kobo and it works well (though I will stick to my long-term partner Dolly Pro):
The author also makes a nice ebook font previewer page:
Did it also show up in your YouTube feed one or two days ago? 
Funny coincidence otherwise.
I wonder if it’ll be available on Google Fonts as well.
This works well on Boox. I’ll give it a try for a bit! I do like it on first glance. I don’t myself have issues with “normal” fonts on modern high resolution eInk displays, it’s really not that far off from paper save for the contrast.
Yes, the wonderfully nerdy video on YouTube was what alerted me to Libron…
Out of curiosity, what are the advantages of having a font on Google fonts? It doesn’t seem to help for installation other than web pages? And in at least some cases the Google fonts version is older / out of date…
Google Fonts makes it easier to install them too.
How? Please elaborate.
It bundles the fonts in a ZIP you can extract and open in your font manager. But that may just be me finding GitHub hard for anything else other than installer files.
Oh, I see what you mean. I’m mainly using it for discovering new fonts, but take the cumbersome route to download them (for the reason nontroppo mentioned).
For GitHub, if someone links you to the main page that explains the project, then click the Releases link in the sidebar (or just add /releases to the end of the URL). There you will find a “Libron.zip” download. More rarely a project will not have a release listing page, but that’s usually because the “code” itself is something you can download as a zip, i.e. if just the font files are in the repo you just grab that direct via the big green “Code” button, and “Download as Zip”).
Since this is an open source font, hopefully in a while I’ll be able to type into a shell window:
apt install fonts-libron
Which is of course by far the easiest way to install fonts. 
It’s still stupid that Google doesn’t let you choose “the latest” at your own risk (I understand why this can’t be the default for a CDN). Most people have no idea that they’re basically downloading a time capsule.
Dodging that problem one can hilariously (for those that are the opposite and dislike Google’s page—or if they are like me, and generally have all of Google firewalled and don’t want to turn all of that stuff off), here is the official GitHub repository for Google Fonts.
You could even, if you wanted, download everything. But the font selection menus in all of your software will not thank you for that.