googlefontdirectory

This is an UNOFFICIAL MIRROR of Google Fonts that contains only the relevant *.ttf files that end users need to use the fonts.

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Created for easier access to all of Google Fonts, with a smaller download size compared with using Google's official repository (100MB vs 2 GB).

Installation

Install these fonts the same way as you would with any other font. Copy the desired fonts to your system's font directory. Grab all the fonts in a compressed format by downloading one of these:

Background

Presently, there is no quick method for users to install all the fonts from Google's official mercurial repository.

In order to install from the official method, users are required to clone and pull updates from Google's hg repo (~2GB).

This repository mirrors that repo, but only contains the web font files (*.ttf) along with the relevant license (*.txt) and metadata (*.json) files, by periodically updating the hg repo and executing:

# Find webfont or license or metadata file in the hg repo.
# Extract dirname from file.
# Extract parent folder name from dirname. Create parent folder name in git repo if it doesn't exist.
# Copy the file changes to git repo
find ./googlefonts-hg/{apache,ofl,ufl} -maxdepth 2 \( -name '*.ttf' -o -name '*.txt' -o -name '*.json' \) \
  -exec sh -c 'dir="${1%/*}"; \
  [[ ! -d ./googlefonts-git/fonts/"${dir##*/}" ]] && mkdir -pv ./googlefonts-git/fonts/"${dir##*/}"; \
  rsync -rmv --delete "$1" ./googlefonts-git/fonts/"${1#*/*/*/}";' _ {} \;

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Unofficial mirror of Google Fonts