That is up to you. The more code you write, the faster you will learn. But you could do a first pass with the course doing only the built-in code challenges.
Hmm ... I wouldn't be too concerned with this since fonts are tiny files. We are in the age of 4k video download and so fonts are barely a blip in file size.
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