Discussion
Font Smuggler
dijit: Whoa. How does this work?One of the major issues we had at my previous company weaning people off of powerpoint (to google docs) was brand fonts. Ours, of course.A lot of what is considered brand identity in presentations comes from fonts, which makes Google Docs Slides a non-starter for many unfortunately.(we ended up making them in powerpoint and using the Google Docs compatibility mode with pptx).
mhitza: From the small info icon that opens up a section. > Google Workspace lets brands who pay enough embed custom corporate fonts into their docs and slides. Normally, these are locked to just those brands shelling out for custom typefaces, but there's one loophole: the ol' copy/paste. Below are a selection of brand fonts with which you can do exactly that. Enjoy.
rafram: > Google Workspace lets brands who pay enough embed custom corporate fonts into their docs and slides. Normally, these are locked to just those brands shelling out for custom typefaces, but there's one loophole: the ol' copy/paste.
novov: Is there any difference between Source Serif and Source Sans as listed here and the publicly available versions, given they are open source typefaces?
love2read: I really like the style of copying the “google tool” style that this website and jmail use. It makes the project feel different compared to all the ai-generated app these days.
ngrilly: Would be really good if Google Docs could support custom brand fonts by letting their customers upload them in the admin console.
dijit: Oh thanks! I looked but I missed that.So, I need to be super rich? Thats sad.
vrganj: Why did we go from owning the software we run and being able to just modify things as we see fit to "You have to give Google a lot of money so you can have your own font in your own presentation"?Where did things go this wrong?
Someone: If you want to drink your own wine in a restaurant, you have to pay for that, too.This isn’t much different; there still are plenty of non-Google options for creating presentations to choose from that do allow using your own font.
Andrex: I'm going to go the unpopular route and ask, how mission-critical are fonts, really? Protected fonts such as these can't be mission-critical, legally, right?Never felt myself lacking for fonts in Docs, myself. Quite the opposite, Google Fonts has way more than I'd ever have preinstalled and is now my primary avenue for typeface discovery.
varun_ch: I knew about this for Google’s own fonts but had no idea they offered the option to use custom fonts. Is there any easy place to find a list of them? I wonder if the custom fonts are just hardcoded/pushed to their CDN alongside all the other ones.
vrganj: Depends on what you do.Are you building a slide deck on your systems architecture? Probably doesn't matter.Are you building a marketing deck on your new corporate identity? Probably matters a lot.Either way, the tool I'm using shouldn't be the one deciding what matters and what doesn't. Just let me use my font as I please!
