googlefontdirectory - Download Google Web Fonts

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Welcome to the Google Code project for Google Web Fonts!

This site contains all the font files available in Google Web Fonts, including the source files.

There is also an issue manager where fonts problems are reported and tracked, and a wiki with information for type designers.

If you would like to actively participate in the design of a font project, please read the FONTLOG.txt file that accompanies the fonts sources and contact the original designer directly.

Submit a Font

If you wish to submit a font, please use the Contribute to Google Web Fonts form.

Report a Font Issue

Note: Google Chrome has a known bug, where fonts installed on your computer will no longer work as web fonts. Please use a font manager to conveniently de/activate these fonts

Sign in with your Google Account
Go to the Issues tab above and click "New Issue"
Explain your issue and submit. Attaching screenshot image files is helpful.

Please do not upload fonts you wish to be included in GWF using this issue tracker - use the Contribute to Google Web Fonts form instead.

Thanks for taking the time to do this!

Download Source Files

To make modifications to the fonts, you may wish to use the 'source' files, not the binary TTF files. These source files are available in this Google Code project's Source repository.

In www.google.com/webfonts you can add a specific font family to your collection, and then in the top right click 'download collection' to download the binary TTF files. This is useful for making web page mock ups, or otherwise using the fonts.

If you wish to make modifications to the fonts, you are free to do so under the terms of the font's license. Typically this is the SIL Open Font License, but there are some others such as the Apache 2 license, or the Ubuntu Font License. Make sure that you read these licenses so that you understand what is permitted and restricted, just as you would with any other font license.

The OFL has an option for designers to declare Reserved Font Names. If the font you wish to modify has a Reserved Font Name, be sure to change the name of the font before making any further modifications.

To download all the files in the repository - totaling 1.3Gb and growing - you must use the "Mercurial" version control program.

Mercurial can download all the files, and then download only the changes, so that you don't have to repeatedly download 1.3Gb+ of data that did not change.

Windows

Download and install TortoiseHG, a graphical user interface for Mercurial.
Make a new folder somewhere.
Right click that folder, go to TortoiseHG, and click Clone
Enter for the Source https://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/
Click OK and wait for the download to complete

In future, to update you can then right click the folder you made and click 'Hg Synchronize'

To install a downloaded font, open the Control Panel, find the Fonts folder there, and drag and drop the OTF or TTF files inside that folder. You may need to restart your applications, but not the whole computer, for the fonts to be ready for use.

Mac OS X

Click the Apple logo in the top left of the screen, then 'About this Mac,' and note the version of Mac OS X you have (10.5, 10.6, etc)
Download and install Mercurial for your version of Mac OS X
Open the Terminal application
Paste in hg clone https://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/ googlefontdirectory;
Hit return and wait for the download to complete

In future, to update you can open the Terminal application and paste in cd googlefontdirectory; hg pull;

You may also wish to investigate the Mac HG application which provides a GUI for Mercurial.

To install a downloaded font, open a Finder window, go to your Home folder, then Library, then Fonts, and drag and drop the OTF or TTF files inside that folder. The Fonts folder may not exist, and if so you can create it. You may need to restart your applications, but not the whole computer, for the fonts to be ready for use.

Fedora GNU/Linux

Open the Terminal application
Install Mercurial by pasting in the command yum install -y mercurial;
Hit return to run the command
Paste in hg clone https://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/ googlefontdirectory;
Hit return and wait for the download to complete

In future, to update you can open the Terminal application and paste in cd googlefontdirectory; hg pull;

To install a downloaded font, open a file manager window, go to your Home folder, then ".fonts" - this directory may not exist, and if so, create it. Then drag and drop the OTF or TTF files inside that folder. You may need to restart your applications, but not the whole computer, for the fonts to be ready for use.

Ubuntu GNU/Linux

Open the Terminal application
Install Mercurial by pasting in the command apt-get install -y mercurial;
Hit return to run the command
Paste in hg clone https://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/ googlefontdirectory;
Hit return and wait for the download to complete

In future, to update you can open the Terminal application and paste in cd googlefontdirectory; hg pull;

Download Specific Source Files

You can also download specific source files directly from this Google Code Project website.

The 'browse' interface of the Google Code Project website doesn't handle as many sub-directories as this repository uses.

However, there is a work around - you can guess the folder name of the font family, and add it to the end of the browse URL, like this:

http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/nobile

Note you can navigate to the 'src' directory on the left to find SFD, VFB and OTF source files.

Click a file in the main area and then in bottom right there is a "File info" area. Click the "View raw file" link and you'll download that file directly.

If you have any queries, you can tweet the team @googlefonts