# 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 From time to time, families have been renamed or updated in a way that the existing styles had to change substantially. Until April 2020, the initial family was retained, creating similarly named pairs of directories and often duplicate/redundant, files. The initial families are kept in the API so that people already using them can continue to do so. 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 still exist in the commit history. | Initial Family | Current Family | Category | |:-------------------------|:-------------------------|:---------| | `alefhebrew` | `alef` | renamed | | `mrbedford` | `mrbedfort` | renamed | | `misssaintdelafield` | `mrssaintdelafield` | renamed | | `siamreap` | `siemreap` | renamed | | `terminaldosis` | `dosis` | renamed | | `terminaldosislight` | `dosis` | expanded | | `baloo` | `baloo2` | expanded | | `baloobhai` | `baloobhai2` | expanded | | `baloobhaijaan` | `baloobhaijaan2` | expanded | | `baloobhaina` | `baloobhaina2` | expanded | | `baloochettan` | `baloochettan2` | expanded | | `balooda` | `balooda2` | expanded | | `baloopaaji` | `baloopaaji2` | expanded | | `balootamma` | `balootamma2` | expanded | | `balootammudu` | `balootammudu2` | expanded | | `baloothambi` | `baloothambi2` | expanded | | `bevietnam` | `bevietnampro` | expanded | | `spartan` | `leaguespartan` | expanded | | `scheherazade` | `scheherazadenew` | expanded | | `kdamthmor` | `kdamthmorpro` | expanded | | `andikanewbasic` | `andika` | expanded | | `gentiumbasic` | `gentiumplus` | expanded | | `andada` | `andadapro` | expanded | | `fredokaone` | `fredoka` | expanded | | `gentiumbookbasic` | `gentiumbookplus` | expanded | | `arimamadurai` | `arima` | expanded | | `meriendaone` | `merienda` | expanded | | `codacaption` | `coda` | expanded | | `sourceserifpro` | `sourceserif4` | renamed | | `sourcesanspro` | `sourcesans3` | renamed | ## Missing METADATA.pb files Fonts in Early Access do not have METADATA.pb files. ## .pb vs .textproto While `.textproto` is now the canonical extension for Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) text files, we have hundreds of `METADATA` files with the `.pb` extension. 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. ## 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 [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. 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 include 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 (emoji, math, icons, etc) that are not available in Google Fonts. * * ## Where were the homepage sample texts from? In 2016 to 2020, the Google Fonts catalog displayed one of a dozen or so different sample texts. Here they are and where they are from: * "A red flair silhouetted the jagged edge of a wing" – The Jewels of Aptor, Samuel R. Delany * "A shining crescent far beneath the flying vessel" – Triplanetary, E. E. Smith * "All their equipment and instruments are alive" – Mr. Spaceship, Philip K. Dick * "Almost before we knew it, we had left the ground" – A Trip to Venus, John Munro * "I watched the storm, so beautiful yet terrific" – Frankenstein, Mary Shelley * "It was going to be a lonely trip back" – Youth by Isaac Asimov * "Mist enveloped the ship three hours out from port" – The Jewels of Aptor, Samuel R. Delany * "My two natures had memory in common" – Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson * "She stared through the window at the stars" – The Millionaire's Convenient Bride, Catherine George ???? * "Silver mist suffused the deck of the ship" – The Jewels of Aptor, Samuel R. Delany * "The face of the moon was in shadow" – Mr. Spaceship, Philip K. Dick * "The recorded voice scratched in the speaker" – Deathworld, Harry Harrison * "The sky was cloudless and of a deep dark blue" – A Trip to Venus, John Munro * "The spectacle before us was indeed sublime" – A Trip to Venus, John Munro * "Then came the night of the first falling star" – The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells * "Waves flung themselves at the blue evening" – The Jewels of Aptor, Samuel R. Delany"