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github.com/google/fonts.git repo trivia
Google Fonts Repo Wiki
The previous fonts Mercurial repository had a wiki at https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/wiki which is no longer available. The contents of the wiki are now available here:
https://github.com/googlefonts/gf-docs
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/mrbedford
andofl/mrbedfort
containMrBedfort-Regular.ttf
ofl/mrssaintdelafield
andofl/misssaintdelafield
containMrsSaintDelafield-Regular.ttf
ofl/siamreap
andofl/siemreap
containSiemreap.ttf
ofl/terminaldosis
andofl/dosis
contain the same files (renamed) andofl/terminaldosislight
containTerminalDosis-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 which provides raw data for constructing such a directory in JSON format. Here is a list of 3rd party directories:
- http://font-combinator.com / http://chipcullen.com/font-combinator
- https://www.typetester.org
- http://font-combinator.com
- http://somadesign.ca/demos/better-google-fonts
- http://fontapp.org
- http://fontapp.org/graph
- http://katydecorah.com/font-library
- http://fontcdn.org
- http://googlefontsdirectory.org
- https://hail2u.github.io/mn
- http://fontflame.com
- http://jenniferdewalt.com/gfboom/page
- http://fontpair.co
- https://typ.io
- http://andreasweis.com/webfontblender
- http://www.typegenius.com
- http://abbychen.me/punch
- http://typewonder.com
- http://www.localfont.com
- http://open-foundry.com
There are also handcrafted directories with rich samples:
- http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/
- http://femmebot.github.io/google-type/
- http://100daysoffonts.com
- http://jxnblk.com/type-a/
- https://jonsuh.com/100-days-of-scriptures/
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.