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As you can see there are a lot of different ways you can improve your font performance. Two primary points you want to keep in mind are overall load times and then also first paint or render of your text, so you can avoid FOIT. Remember to run tests for 3G connections as well because mobile users might have a worse experience as opposed to desktop users.
Prioritize your font delivery based on browser support, choose only the styles and charsets you need, host with Google Fonts or locally, and experiment with storing in localStorage as well as using other methods such as Font Face Observer with font events.