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.
Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs
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Re: Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh thanks! I looked but I missed that. So, I need to be super rich? Thats sad.
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?
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.
Re: Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs
#13Surprised that such font access isn't gated by IP address --- usually font licenses are quite restrictive and have such requirements for usage.
Re: Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs
#14Any idea how did the creator manage to get access to the fonts in the first place? Won't you need a Google Docs document which uses the given font and then copy it from there and put it up on the website? Or is there some way the creator could have put these fonts on his website from publicly available information?
Re: Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
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.
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!
Re: Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs
#16Surprised that such font access isn't gated by IP address --- usually font licenses are quite restrictive and have such requirements for usage.
The licenses (from major foundries/vendors) are indeed usually quite restrictive; however, the hard part has always been enforcing them. It's not surprising to me that Google hasn't built any guardrails around this.
After all, gating by IP address? What happens if someone from the marketing team logs on from an airport? All of the slides revert to Arial?
Re: Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs
#17Any idea how did the creator manage to get access to the fonts in the first place? Won't you need a Google Docs document which uses the given font and then copy it from there and put it up on the website? Or is there some way the creator could have put these fonts on his website from publicly available information?
It's just setting the font-family in the style attribute of a . (As you can see by inspecting the text/html content of your clipboard, e.g. with `xclip -selection clipboard -o -t text/html`)
Re: Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs
#18Received DMCA takedown notices for a paid font I used for my wife’s interior design website that she liked but we didn’t pay for because…I’m lazy.
I was surprised to receive the DMCA (it is hosted on GitHub Pages). I ignored the emails because…I’m lazy.
They (GitHub) eventually took down the repository (and site). So I swapped to another font and I don’t think my wife noticed.
I think all of this was still easier than probably paying for the font!
Lesson of the story? Don’t underestimate the impact of laziness on your potential customers.
Re: Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs
#19Any idea how did the creator manage to get access to the fonts in the first place? Won't you need a Google Docs document which uses the given font and then copy it from there and put it up on the website? Or is there some way the creator could have put these fonts on his website from publicly available information?
Have a look at the raw clipboard data with something like https://evercoder.github.io/clipboard-inspector/ and you'll see how it's all set up. A bunch of markup that can be obtained from any google doc with the font name updated.
Re: Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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!
It doesn't matter on the corporate identity either.