Google Web Fonts on GitHub

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Post by iamdanfox » Mon, Mar 09, 2015, 5:29 PM UTC

Google Web Fonts on GitHub
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Re: Google Web Fonts on GitHub

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Post by teleclimber » Mon, Mar 09, 2015, 6:31 PM UTC

This might make it easier to use Google Web Fonts in offline environments.

Re: Google Web Fonts on GitHub

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Post by eslaught » Mon, Mar 09, 2015, 6:33 PM UTC

teleclimber wrote: post #2

This might make it easier to use Google Web Fonts in offline environments.

The fonts were always available in a repository format: https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/

Re: Google Web Fonts on GitHub

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Post by admax88q » Mon, Mar 09, 2015, 6:45 PM UTC

teleclimber wrote: post #2

This might make it easier to use Google Web Fonts in offline environments.

Why?

Git seems like a poor choice for publishing already compressed assets like fonts. Just include the font files you need in your offline applications.

Re: Google Web Fonts on GitHub

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Post by itsbits » Mon, Mar 09, 2015, 6:47 PM UTC

are all google fonts available here? I see only few to http://www.google.com/fonts/..

Re: Google Web Fonts on GitHub

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Post by akerl_ » Mon, Mar 09, 2015, 6:50 PM UTC

"This is not an official Google project, and Google provides no support for it."

I guess the intended message here is "We don't promise to maintain or update this or fix your bugs/issues/concerns", but it seems weird to say it's not an official project when it's on Google's namespace

Re: Google Web Fonts on GitHub

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Post by detaro » Mon, Mar 09, 2015, 6:54 PM UTC

akerl_ wrote: post #6

"This is not an official Google project, and Google provides no support for it." I guess the intended message here is "We don't promise to maintain or update this or fix your bugs/issues/concerns", but it seems weird to say it's not an official project when it's on Google's namespace

There are a lot of projects in the google namespace that are just experiments by employees. Being there just means "done by someone affiliated with google", not "officially supported or endorsed". A bit confusing sometimes, but that is how it is.

Re: Google Web Fonts on GitHub

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Post by juhohei » Mon, Mar 09, 2015, 6:57 PM UTC

teleclimber wrote: post #2

This might make it easier to use Google Web Fonts in offline environments.

There has been an AUR package for the fonts since 2013-04-27: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-fonts-git