# github.com/google/fonts.git repo trivia ## Incomplete greek-ext subsets Open Sans (and some others, like Roboto) are advertised as they supporting Extended Greek, but choosing the greek-ext subset will not display Open Sans (or the required font) for this range because they don't actually contain the required characters. You're welcome to commission these characters, though. ## Google Fonts Repo Wiki The previous fonts Mercurial repository had a wiki at which is no longer available. The contents of the wiki are now available here: ## Duplicated fonts There are some similarly named pairs of directories which each have identically named font files. These files are redundant, and exist following the renaming of a family. The initial directories are kept so that people already using that initial name can continue to do so. They are no longer listed in the main www.google.com/fonts directory, but the files exist in this repo since they are still served via the Google Fonts API. - `ofl/alefhebrew` and `ofl/alef` contain `Alef-Regular.ttf` and `Alef-Bold.ttf` - `ofl/mrbedford` and `ofl/mrbedfort` contain `MrBedfort-Regular.ttf` - `ofl/mrssaintdelafield` and `ofl/misssaintdelafield` contain `MrsSaintDelafield-Regular.ttf` - `ofl/siamreap` and `ofl/siemreap` contain `Siemreap.ttf` - `ofl/terminaldosis` and `ofl/dosis` contain the same files (renamed) and `ofl/terminaldosislight` contain `TerminalDosis-Light.ttf` ## Missing METADATA.pb files Fonts in Early Access do not have METADATA.pb files. ## Install on Windows You can install all of the fonts using Windows PowerShell. Change directories to the folder where you downloaded the package, and run the following command: ``` $fonts = (New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).Namespace(0x14) dir ofl/*/*.ttf | %{ $fonts.CopyHere($_.fullname) } ``` ## 3rd Party Directories The www.google.com/fonts directory is accompanied by a [Google Fonts Developer API](https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/developer_api) which provides raw data for constructing such a directory in JSON format. Here is a list of 3rd party directories: * + * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ([source](https://github.com/py-ranoid/font2vec)), a 3D projection of all fonts * * * There are also handcrafted directories with rich samples: * * * * * * * * * * ## Rightsholder contacts This shell command shows all email addresses for font copyright holders listed in the METADATA.pb files: grep copyright\: */*/MET* | grep \@ | perl -ne'if(/[\w\.\-\_]+@([\w\-\_]+\.)+[A-Za-z]{2,4}/g){print "$&\n"}' | sort | uniq This shell command shows all the families without a contact email address: grep copyright\: */*/MET* | grep -v \@ | cut -d\: -f1 | cut -d\/ -f2 | uniq | sort The copyright holders of those families are mostly Google, SIL, Adobe, Canonical, Naver, and a couple of outliers. ## Articles about Google Fonts Some interesting articles about Google Fonts: * * * * * ## Interesting Libre Fonts Not In Google Fonts Here is a list of some libre fonts made for special purposes (emoij, math, icon, etc) that are not available in Google Fonts. * *