I have a Wordpress site with the "baskerville 2' theme installed. I've been using google page speed insights to assess my site's loading speed. 
It tells me that the font awesome Webfont preload request is slowing it down.
I've added :

```
<link rel=”preload” href=”https://dsbaudio.com/wp-content/themes/baskerville-2/fontawesome/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.3.0” as=”font” crossorigin=”anonymous”>

```

to the `header.php` and this has improved things a bit.

If I understand things correctly, would the site load a lot faster if the theme didn't preload web fonts at all?

Is there a way to modify the theme (using a child theme edited offline) to revert it to standard fonts like Arial, Times or Georgia?