diff --git a/quartz/components/Head.tsx b/quartz/components/Head.tsx
index e9d9a5e7e..abc18bc3a 100644
--- a/quartz/components/Head.tsx
+++ b/quartz/components/Head.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { i18n } from "../i18n"
 import { FullSlug, getFileExtension, joinSegments, pathToRoot } from "../util/path"
 import { CSSResourceToStyleElement, JSResourceToScriptElement } from "../util/resources"
-import { googleFontHref } from "../util/theme"
+import { googleFontHref, googleFontSubsetHref } from "../util/theme"
 import { QuartzComponent, QuartzComponentConstructor, QuartzComponentProps } from "./types"
 import { unescapeHTML } from "../util/escape"
 import { CustomOgImagesEmitterName } from "../plugins/emitters/ogImage"
@@ -44,9 +44,8 @@ export default (() => {
           <>
             <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com" />
             <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" />
-            {(googleFontHref(cfg.theme, cfg.pageTitle) as string[]).map((href: string) => (
-              <link rel="stylesheet" href={href} />
-            ))}
+            <link rel="stylesheet" href={googleFontHref(cfg.theme)} />
+            <link rel="stylesheet" href={googleFontSubsetHref(cfg.theme, cfg.pageTitle)} />
           </>
         )}
         <link rel="preconnect" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com" crossOrigin="anonymous" />
diff --git a/quartz/plugins/emitters/componentResources.ts b/quartz/plugins/emitters/componentResources.ts
index a2fb2bf30..dc0084de0 100644
--- a/quartz/plugins/emitters/componentResources.ts
+++ b/quartz/plugins/emitters/componentResources.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import styles from "../../styles/custom.scss"
 import popoverStyle from "../../components/styles/popover.scss"
 import { BuildCtx } from "../../util/ctx"
 import { QuartzComponent } from "../../components/types"
-import { googleFontHref, joinStyles, processGoogleFonts } from "../../util/theme"
+import { googleFontHref, googleFontSubsetHref, joinStyles, processGoogleFonts } from "../../util/theme"
 import { Features, transform } from "lightningcss"
 import { transform as transpile } from "esbuild"
 import { write } from "./helpers"
@@ -210,12 +210,17 @@ export const ComponentResources: QuartzEmitterPlugin = () => {
       if (cfg.theme.fontOrigin === "local") {
         // let the user do it themselves in css
       } else if (cfg.theme.fontOrigin === "googleFonts" && !cfg.theme.cdnCaching) {
-        // When cdnCaching is true, we link to google fonts in Head.tsx
-        const fontUrls = googleFontHref(ctx.cfg.configuration.theme, ctx.cfg.configuration.pageTitle)
-        const fontResponses = await Promise.all(fontUrls.map(url => fetch(url)))
-        const fontStyleSheets = await Promise.all(fontResponses.map(res => res.text()))
+        // when cdnCaching is true, we link to google fonts in Head.tsx
+        const theme = ctx.cfg.configuration.theme
+        const title = ctx.cfg.configuration.pageTitle
 
-        googleFontsStyleSheet = fontStyleSheets.join('\n')
+        const fontResponse = await fetch(googleFontHref(theme))
+        googleFontsStyleSheet = await fontResponse.text()
+
+        const fontSubsetResponse = await fetch(googleFontSubsetHref(theme, title))
+        const googleFontSubsetStyleSheet = await fontSubsetResponse.text()
+
+        googleFontsStyleSheet = `${googleFontsStyleSheet}\n${googleFontSubsetStyleSheet}`
 
         if (!cfg.baseUrl) {
           throw new Error(
diff --git a/quartz/util/theme.ts b/quartz/util/theme.ts
index 534625161..9f319f0dd 100644
--- a/quartz/util/theme.ts
+++ b/quartz/util/theme.ts
@@ -82,24 +82,20 @@ function formatFontSpecification(type: "title" | "header" | "body" | "code", spe
   return spec.name
 }
 
-export function googleFontHref(theme: Theme, text: string): string[] {
+export function googleFontHref(theme: Theme) {
   const { header, body, code } = theme.typography
-  const title = theme.typography.title || header
-
-  const titleFont = formatFontSpecification("title", title)
   const headerFont = formatFontSpecification("header", header)
   const bodyFont = formatFontSpecification("body", body)
   const codeFont = formatFontSpecification("code", code)
 
-  let hrefs = [
-    `https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=${headerFont}&family=${bodyFont}&family=${codeFont}&display=swap`,
-  ]
+  return `https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=${headerFont}&family=${bodyFont}&family=${codeFont}&display=swap`
+}
 
-  if (titleFont !== headerFont && titleFont !== bodyFont && titleFont !== codeFont) {
-    hrefs.push(`https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=${titleFont}&text=${encodeURIComponent(text)}&display=swap`)
-  }
+export function googleFontSubsetHref(theme: Theme, text: string) {
+  const title = theme.typography.title || theme.typography.header
+  const titleFont = formatFontSpecification("title", title)
 
-  return hrefs
+  return `https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=${titleFont}&text=${encodeURIComponent(text)}&display=swap`
 }
 
 export interface GoogleFontFile {