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# github.com/google/fonts.git repo trivia
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## Incomplete greek-ext subsets
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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.
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You're welcome to commission these characters, though.
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## Google Fonts Repo Wiki
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The previous fonts Mercurial repository had a wiki at <https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/wiki> which is no longer available.
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The contents of the wiki are now available here:
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<https://github.com/googlefonts/gf-docs>
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## Duplicated fonts
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From time to time, families have been renamed or updated in a way that the existing styles had to change substantially.
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Until April 2020, the initial family was retained, creating similarly named pairs of directories and often duplicate/redundant, files.
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The initial families are kept in the API so that people already using them can continue to do so.
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They are no longer listed in the [fonts.google.com](https://fonts.google.com) catalog, or in the HEAD of the master branch, but the files exist still exist in the commit history.
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| Initial Family | Current Family | Category |
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|:-------------------------|:-------------------------|:---------|
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| `ofl/alefhebrew` | `ofl/alef` | renamed |
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| `ofl/mrbedford` | `ofl/mrbedfort` | renamed |
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| `ofl/misssaintdelafield` | `ofl/mrssaintdelafield` | renamed |
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| `ofl/siamreap` | `ofl/siemreap` | renamed |
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| `ofl/terminaldosis` | `ofl/dosis` | renamed |
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| `ofl/terminaldosislight` | `ofl/dosis` | expanded |
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| `baloo` | `baloo2` | expanded |
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| `baloobhai` | `baloobhai2` | expanded |
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| `baloobhaijaan` | `baloobhaijaan2` | expanded |
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| `baloobhaina` | `baloobhaina2` | expanded |
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| `baloochettan` | `baloochettan2` | expanded |
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| `balooda` | `balooda2` | expanded |
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| `baloopaaji` | `baloopaaji2` | expanded |
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| `balootamma` | `balootamma2` | expanded |
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| `balootammudu` | `balootammudu2` | expanded |
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| `baloothambi` | `baloothambi2` | expanded |
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## Missing METADATA.pb files
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Fonts in Early Access do not have METADATA.pb files.
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## .pb vs .textproto
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While `.textproto` is now the canonical extension for Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) text files, we have hundreds of `METADATA` files with the `.pb` extension.
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The inconsistency isn't a practical issue, and as we have internal tools that assume the old filenames, it isn't worth renaming them proactively.
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## Install on Windows
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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:
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$fonts = (New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).Namespace(0x14)
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dir ofl/*/*.ttf | %{ $fonts.CopyHere($_.fullname) }
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## 3rd Party Directories
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The [fonts.google.com](https://fonts.google.com) 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.
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Here is a list of 3rd party directories:
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* <http://font-combinator.com> + <http://chipcullen.com/font-combinator>
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* <https://www.typetester.org>
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* <http://font-combinator.com>
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* <http://somadesign.ca/demos/better-google-fonts>
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* <http://fontapp.org>
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* <http://fontapp.org/graph>
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* <http://katydecorah.com/font-library>
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* <http://fontcdn.org>
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* <http://googlefontsdirectory.org>
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* <https://hail2u.github.io/mn>
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* <http://fontflame.com>
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* <http://jenniferdewalt.com/gfboom/page>
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* <http://fontpair.co>
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* <https://typ.io>
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* <http://andreasweis.com/webfontblender>
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* <http://www.typegenius.com>
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* <http://abbychen.me/punch>
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* <http://typewonder.com>
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* <http://www.localfont.com>
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* <http://open-foundry.com>
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* <https://typeresources.github.io/glyph-gazer>
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* <http://cdn.canelodigital.cl/fonts>
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* <http://code.thisarmy.com/fontsinfo>
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* <http://www.localfont.com>
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* <http://brandmark.io/font-generator>
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* <http://archetypeapp.com>
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* <https://useratio.com/the-anatomy-of-a-thousand-typefaces>
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* <https://tyffle.ml>
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* <https://lepovirta.github.io/Typographer>
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* <https://lepovirta.github.io/Typographer-React>
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* <https://jmattthew.github.io/better-font-finder/better-font-finder.html>
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* <https://font2vec.vishalgupta.me> ([source](https://github.com/py-ranoid/font2vec)), a 3D projection of all fonts
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* <https://logogenerator.website>
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* <http://www.ourownthing.co.uk/fontpairing/>
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* <https://goofonts.com>
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There are also handcrafted directories with rich samples:
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* <http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type>
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* <http://femmebot.github.io/google-type>
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* <http://100daysoffonts.com>
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* <http://jxnblk.com/type-a>
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* <https://jonsuh.com/100-days-of-scriptures>
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* <http://codepen.io/nxworld/pen/XKRaRm>
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* <https://twitter.com/FontSnek>
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* <https://www.reliablepsd.com/ultimate-google-font-pairings>
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* <http://fonts.greatsimple.io>
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* <https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/best-google-font-combinations-typeface-pairings/>
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* <https://www.fontsinthewild.com/google>
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## Rightsholder contacts
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This shell command shows all email addresses for font copyright holders listed in the METADATA.pb files:
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grep copyright\: */*/MET* | grep \@ | perl -ne'if(/[\w\.\-\_]+@([\w\-\_]+\.)+[A-Za-z]{2,4}/g){print "$&\n"}' | sort | uniq
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This shell command shows all the families without a contact email address:
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grep copyright\: */*/MET* | grep -v \@ | cut -d\: -f1 | cut -d\/ -f2 | uniq | sort
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The copyright holders of those families include Google, SIL, Adobe, Canonical, Naver, and a couple of outliers.
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## Articles about Google Fonts
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Some interesting articles about Google Fonts:
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* <http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/05/introducing-google-font-api-google-font.html>
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* <http://googlewebfonts.blogspot.com>
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* <https://design.google.com/articles/reimagining-google-fonts>
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* <https://medium.com/google-design/introducing-space-mono-a-new-monospaced-typeface-by-colophon-foundry-for-google-fonts-84367eac6dfb>
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* <http://www.fastcodesign.com/3033126/roboto-rebooted-why-google-plans-to-update-its-font-like-the-rest-of-its-products>
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## Interesting Libre Fonts Not In Google Fonts
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Here is a list of some libre fonts made for special purposes (emoij, math, icon, etc) that are not available in Google Fonts.
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* <https://material.io/icons>
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* <https://github.com/figs-lab/datalegreya>
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## Where were the homepage sample texts from?
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In 2016 to 2020, the Google Fonts catalog displayed one of a dozen or so different sample texts.
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Here they are and where they are from:
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* "A red flair silhouetted the jagged edge of a wing" – The Jewels of Aptor, Samuel R. Delany
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* "A shining crescent far beneath the flying vessel" – Triplanetary, E. E. Smith
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* "All their equipment and instruments are alive" – Mr. Spaceship, Philip K. Dick
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* "Almost before we knew it, we had left the ground" – A Trip to Venus, John Munro
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* "I watched the storm, so beautiful yet terrific" – Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
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* "It was going to be a lonely trip back" – Youth by Isaac Asimov
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* "Mist enveloped the ship three hours out from port" – The Jewels of Aptor, Samuel R. Delany
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* "My two natures had memory in common" – Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
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* "She stared through the window at the stars" – The Millionaire's Convenient Bride, Catherine George ????
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* "Silver mist suffused the deck of the ship" – The Jewels of Aptor, Samuel R. Delany
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* "The face of the moon was in shadow" – Mr. Spaceship, Philip K. Dick
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* "The recorded voice scratched in the speaker" – Deathworld, Harry Harrison
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* "The sky was cloudless and of a deep dark blue" – A Trip to Venus, John Munro
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* "The spectacle before us was indeed sublime" – A Trip to Venus, John Munro
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* "Then came the night of the first falling star" – The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
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* "Waves flung themselves at the blue evening" – The Jewels of Aptor, Samuel R. Delany"
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