There is a switch in Chromium where one can disable remote fonts entirely. Obviously not for the average user, and more of a power-user thing, but still handy:

    --disable-remote-fonts

You can find a tonne of other optimizations you can do to Chromium here: peter.sh/feed/chromium-command-line-switches

Also if you want fonts that load faster than Google Wenfonts, have a look at http://brick.im/

I use Brick on a tonne of different side projects, and there is a marked decrease in loading time. Brick uses Fastly, which is (arguably) a faster CDN than Google Webfonts and other webfont initiatives like Adobe Webfonts.

Also using Brick is another chance to ban Google from your web traffic as many are doing...Google is like a barnacle that is stuck to the web and is hard to remove entirely without them slurping some of your data