Add More Fonts to Google

Wish you had more font options in your Google Apps, Web Fonts is the solution  

When you first begin to use G-Suite tools like Google Docs, you may be frustrated by the font choices you have available.  But fear not, there is an easy way for you to add hundreds of different fonts to be used in Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings.  

What Fonts are available?
The easies way to see what is available is to go to the Google Fonts page (https://fonts.google.com/). From this page you can filter by Categories of fonts (Serif, Sans Serif, Display, Handwriting, and Monospace).  You can also sort the fonts (Trending, Popular, Date Added, Alphabetical). You can also look at the fonts in terms of number of styles, thickness, slant and width.  Each font has a display of what it looks like to make it easy for you to see if it will work for your needs.

Adding the font
Once you have identified the font(s) you would like to add, it is easy to include them to your font list.

• Go into one of the G-Suite apps (Docs, Sheets, Slides or Drawing)
• Click on the “Fonts” dropdown 

• At the bottom of this list you will see “More fonts…”
• From the fonts window that opens search/filter  for the font name you want to add
• Click on the font you want to add
• Click “Ok”

Since these fonts are “Web Fonts”  they are stored in the cloud and as such will be available anytime the document is opened.  This means that the font will be available for ANYONE who looks at the document. This is very different from what you may have experienced using different fonts in Office apps.

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Green Local Schools
Tech Integration Team