I'm new to dafont.com, and I've tried to troubleshoot by issue using everything I have read about so far. When I click the Download button, I keep getting an error message about being timed out because the site took too long to load. Here's the exact error from Chrome:

This site can’t be reached

dl.dafont.com took too long to respond.

I've tried over the past few days to download a font from my Mac and my PC. I've tried with Safari, IE, Firefox, and Chrome. I can see my browser is telling me it's trying to connect, but it always times out.

Finally, I changed my security settings within the browser to allow pop-ups and downloads, but still nothing happens. When I open the target within the Download button, I can see the site redirects me to dl.dafont.com (apparently with "dl" in front to represent Download?). That's when everything seems to stall and time out.

What am I missing here? Thanks!

no prob here.
you don't need to change any pop-up settings, as Dafont downloads don't open pop-ups. They're just clean downloads (no pop-up, no shitty exe files, no malwares,...)

- does it happen on every font ?
- is it from a computer in a company ?
- can you usually download zip files without problem ?

The trouble, drphilforreal, is with your internet connection (and rarely with the dafont server). When this happens the connection is too slow. This can be an overloaded WiFi connection or an overload on your connection with your isp which puts you at the end of the queue or an overload on the dafont internet connection. This latter would be a very rare occasion.
The same happens to me and not only with dafont. I am at the very end of the line with a max speed of 3Mb download (theoretical, practice is max 2,2Mb) which I have to share with the whole village plus the next village, last but one in the line. This leads to congestion and I, last in the line, am the first one to notice. If I try again after half an hour often, almost always, the problem has gone.

drphilforreal, not too long after writing the above the same thin happened to me. It took 11 minutes to connect to a site in Holland and dafont gave a reset by server - try again - during that time. So, you see it is not just dafont. It is network congestion.