![]() Thus, the results often include font families uniquely from services other than Google Fonts. There is also a custom search field where you can type your query. Unfortunately, the search is performed exclusively over the names of the fonts. The “number of styles” property sorts out fonts with many variants, but it does not allow to select fonts that come in the “regular, bold, italic” combo. Often, the body font requires three variants: regular, bold, and italic. You can search by four properties: thickness, slant, width, and “number of styles.” A style, also called variant, refers both to the style (italic or regular) and weights (100, 200, up to 900). But you cannot search within multiple subsets at once. You can search within scripts (like Latin Extended, Cyrillic, or Devanagari (they are called subsets in Google Fonts). You can include and exclude fonts by five categories: serif, sans-serif, display, handwriting, and monospace. The Google Fonts website provides a beautiful interface where you can preview all fonts, sorting them by trending, popularity, date, or name. You can check the exact number at any moment using the Google Fonts Developer API. You can retrieve the dynamic list of all fonts, including a list of the available styles and scripts for each family. Why we built GooFontsĪt the moment of writing this article, there are 977 typefaces offered by Google Fonts. I’d love to tell you the story behind and share a few technical details regarding the technologies we’ve chosen and how we adapted and used them for this project. GooFonts uses WordPress in the back end and NuxtJS (a Vue.js framework) on the front end. We’ve been tagging Google Fonts and built a website that makes searching through and finding the right font easier. ![]() GooFonts is a side project signed by a developer-wife and a designer-husband, both of them big fans of typography.
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