Why would Google use a font tag?

In November 2005, Matt Cutts, a Google software engineer, said:

Google’s home page doesn’t validate
and that’s mostly by design to save
precious bytes
. Will the world end
because Google doesn’t put quotes
around color attributes? No, and it
makes the page load faster.

Source: Google Blogoscoped – Matt Cutts, Google’s Gadgets Guy (Interview)

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