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Show HN: RandoFont – A browser for Google Fonts

#1

Post by aleshh » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 8:46 PM UTC

Inevitably when starting a new web project I want to pick the perfect font. This is just a browser that shows Google Fonts, randomly, and lets me tag favorites.

I built this years ago and just used AI to give it a minor facelift.

Show HN: RandoFont – A browser for Google Fonts
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#2

Post by cr125rider » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 8:58 PM UTC

I’d love good font pairings as well. Often titles/headings have a different font than body text.

This is fun, nice job

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#3

Post by FlamingMoe » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 9:04 PM UTC

cr125rider wrote: post #2

I’d love good font pairings as well. Often titles/headings have a different font than body text. This is fun, nice job

+1. Google used to have suggested pairings but removed them a while back.

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#4

Post by sphars » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 12:03 AM UTC

I like this, I'm often browsing new fonts to load on my Kindle for reading, or different monospace fonts, so this might help.

Would be nice to filter out material icon fonts. Using only monospace filter, icons showed up like every third shuffle.

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#5

Post by longstation » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 3:50 AM UTC

I am curious why it doesn't have Chinese fonts while both Japanese and Korean fonts are available.

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#6

Post by icemelt8 » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 3:51 AM UTC

fun fact: Bunny CDN provides a privacy first mirror to all google fonts https://bunny.net/fonts/

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#7

Post by jdboyd » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:18 AM UTC

It would be cool if you could set custom header, sub header, and body text examples, then with some pre-filtering beable to hit randomize to find interesting pairings.