Open Sans (and some others, like Roboto) are advertised as they supporting Extended Greek, but choosing the greek-ext subset will not display Open Sans (or the required font) for this range because they don‘t actually contain the required characters. You’re welcome to commission these characters, though.
The previous fonts Mercurial repository had a wiki at https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/wiki which is no longer available. The contents of the wiki are now available here:
https://github.com/googlefonts/gf-docs
From time to time, families have been renamed or updated in a way that the existing styles had to change substantially. Until April 2020, the initial family was retained, creating similarly named pairs of directories and often duplicate/redundant, files. The initial families are kept in the API so that people already using them can continue to do so. They are no longer listed in the fonts.google.com catalog, or in the HEAD of the master branch, but the files still exist in the commit history.
| Initial Family | Current Family | Category |
|---|---|---|
ofl/alefhebrew | ofl/alef | renamed |
ofl/mrbedford | ofl/mrbedfort | renamed |
ofl/misssaintdelafield | ofl/mrssaintdelafield | renamed |
ofl/siamreap | ofl/siemreap | renamed |
ofl/terminaldosis | ofl/dosis | renamed |
ofl/terminaldosislight | ofl/dosis | expanded |
baloo | baloo2 | expanded |
baloobhai | baloobhai2 | expanded |
baloobhaijaan | baloobhaijaan2 | expanded |
baloobhaina | baloobhaina2 | expanded |
baloochettan | baloochettan2 | expanded |
balooda | balooda2 | expanded |
baloopaaji | baloopaaji2 | expanded |
balootamma | balootamma2 | expanded |
balootammudu | balootammudu2 | expanded |
baloothambi | baloothambi2 | expanded |
bevietnam | bevietnampro | expanded |
spartan | leaguespartan | expanded |
scheherazade | scheherazadenew | expanded |
kdamthmor | kdamthmorpro | expanded |
| `andikanewbasic | andika | expanded |
gentiumbasic | gentiumplus | expanded |
andada | andadapro | expanded |
muli | mulish | expanded |
Fonts in Early Access do not have METADATA.pb files.
While .textproto is now the canonical extension for Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) text files, we have hundreds of METADATA files with the .pb extension. The inconsistency isn‘t a practical issue, and as we have internal tools that assume the old filenames, it isn’t worth renaming them proactively.
You can install all of the fonts using Windows PowerShell. Change directories to the folder where you downloaded the package, and run the following command:
$fonts = (New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).Namespace(0x14)
dir ofl/*/*.ttf | %{ $fonts.CopyHere($_.fullname) }
The fonts.google.com is accompanied by a Google Fonts Developer API, which provides raw data for constructing such a directory in JSON format. Here is a list of 3rd party directories:
There are also handcrafted directories with rich samples:
This shell command shows all email addresses for font copyright holders listed in the METADATA.pb files:
grep copyright\: */*/MET* | grep \@ | perl -ne'if(/[\w\.\-\_]+@([\w\-\_]+\.)+[A-Za-z]{2,4}/g){print "$&\n"}' | sort | uniq
This shell command shows all the families without a contact email address:
grep copyright\: */*/MET* | grep -v \@ | cut -d\: -f1 | cut -d\/ -f2 | uniq | sort
The copyright holders of those families include Google, SIL, Adobe, Canonical, Naver, and a couple of outliers.
Some interesting articles about Google Fonts:
Here is a list of some libre fonts made for special purposes (emoij, math, icon, etc) that are not available in Google Fonts.
In 2016 to 2020, the Google Fonts catalog displayed one of a dozen or so different sample texts. Here they are and where they are from: