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 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.json files

Fonts in Early Access do not have METADATA.json files.

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:

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.json 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.

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