Zip archive for non-technical users

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There needs to be an easily downloadable archive containing all the fonts. 

Not all web designers know how to use Mercurial. If these fonts are going to be 
used, the TrueType 
files need to be easily accessible for non-technical users. 

Please add a zip archive to the downloads section of this project.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by joemal...@gmail.com on 21 May 2010 at 1:16

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You don't need to download it. If you want to use these fonts you are better 
off using the API Google provides:
http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/docs/getting_started.html#Quick_Start

Original comment by Ward.Muy...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2010 at 12:35

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Please explain how our designers should use the Google API to load these fonts 
into Photoshop for creating early-stage mockups.

...

We still need an easily accessible download for local use in non-browser 
applications. 

Original comment by joemal...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2010 at 12:46

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I agree. It's confusing when the Summary in the Project Home tab says "This 
project contains the source files for fonts in the Google Font Directory," and 
then there are no source files.

Original comment by antezana...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2010 at 12:51

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Well you can always download them one by one I assume, the source files -are- 
there: http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/
(navigating to a .ttf file, then clicking "View Raw File" should trigger a 
download for example)

Original comment by Ward.Muy...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2010 at 11:29

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I made a small script and downloaded all available fonts. I've attached a 
compressed zip-file. Just unpack it, right click and "install". 

It would still be nice if Google could provide us with an official up-to-date 
archive on the main page.

Original comment by marekven...@gmx.de on 26 Jun 2010 at 4:16

Attachments:

• GoogleFonts.zip

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Thanks Mareken just what I expected to find when I came to this site

Original comment by keit...@cheerful.com on 28 Jun 2010 at 5:54

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Thank You Marekven!

It's odd to me that this isn't readily available for designers, who half the 
time don't touch code, and are more often the ones that dictate which fonts are 
used on a site. 

Original comment by jazatie...@gmail.com on 16 Sep 2010 at 5:36

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This is definitely a must. Thank you marekven for the archive, I'm not going to 
use fonts I can't design with.

Original comment by waveywh...@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2010 at 3:10

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Hi  marekven...@gmx.de,

Is it possible to run the script again? I'd love to use the fonts in my 
mockups, and i only find the old font files...

Original comment by cmspecia...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2010 at 9:08

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I have a complete, up-to-date archive on my site:  
http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/

Original comment by joemal...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2010 at 9:18

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This is now done :)

Original comment by d.crossland on 28 Feb 2011 at 3:26

• Changed state: Fixed

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Wow and it only took six months. I mean, I try not to be a whiner, but I can't 
imagine making use of GFD for anything of importance when giant glaring flaws 
(of which this is just a minor example of the many), problems that could be 
fixed in just a few minutes, take six months to be resolved. If ever.

Heck, you guys broke Nobile three weeks after GFD was announced and it STILL 
hasn't been fixed.

Original comment by saund...@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2011 at 3:40

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So now that this issue is "fixed": Where exactly can I download it?

Original comment by marekven...@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2011 at 4:07

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I can't find the download link. Yes, each font variant is *individually* 
downloadable, but my last pull contained 294 ttf files. 

As far as I can tell there is still no single download archive, and this ticket 
should not be marked as fixed. 

The archive on my site has been updated and contains all 294 font files, plus 
licenses and readme files:  http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/

Original comment by joemal...@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2011 at 4:11

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Agreed it would be great to have an easy to access ZIP of all the font files, 
esp for designers creating mock ups for sites in PhotoShop/Fireworks. :)

Original comment by nathan%n...@gtempaccount.com on 31 Mar 2011 at 8:38

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I can't find the download link, either. Thanks.

Original comment by jon.paw...@gmail.com on 4 Apr 2011 at 2:36

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I have designers I work with that would love to use Google Fonts but don't 
because they can't easily design with them.  This would really help.

Original comment by jhil...@gmail.com on 4 Apr 2011 at 3:59

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How could they close it and not provide a download link? :/
The zip would be really useful indeed.

Original comment by juandani...@gmail.com on 4 Apr 2011 at 4:02

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Joe Maller has provided the entire set of fonts and some good explanations
for usage and Mercurial retrieval here:
http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/

<http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/>Hope this helps.

Original comment by antezana...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2011 at 12:33

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Yes, but as of today there are a couple of new fonts that were added recently, 
so we either download them manually, or wait for Joe Maller to kindly run his 
script or w/e he uses again and add the fonts to the pack, OR just a guy at 
google, makes life easier for us all and makes a download link when new fonts 
are added.

I think last option is easier.

Original comment by juandani...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2011 at 3:41

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Read Joe's post. He explains how to use Meticulous to fetch the current set.

Original comment by antezana...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2011 at 4:05

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I'm a designer and use Joe's site above to get the fonts.  Google, please 
package these up and make it easy for us to get in one swoop (and save Joe's 
bandwidth).  I'd even be okay downloading individually, if the links were up a 
level (maybe "download" button next to each font on 
http://www.google.com/webfonts ).  But having to drill down for each one is not 
a way to get 100+ fonts!!

Original comment by fmuffole...@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2011 at 4:41

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Would love to have a git or svn repository so I could keep them updated.

Original comment by jonahwerre@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2011 at 5:33

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@jonahwerre: Don't know how much trouble it would be for you to install 
Mercurial, but there's most definitely a Mercurial repo:

http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/checkout

Original comment by codeman38 on 15 Apr 2011 at 1:00

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Please make it so. This seems like a vast oversight on the fonts project. Would 
take someone there to whip up a cron job to zip these up nightly.

Original comment by charlest...@gmail.com on 18 Apr 2011 at 5:57

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It is abysmal that Google does not provide a single-archive download for the 
Google Web Fonts!  This was the very first thing that I wanted to do when 
arriving on their web site, yet it is nowhere to be found.

Using some unofficial archive from a random person is not at all professional.  
While I greatly appreciate the efforts of Joe Maller, and am not accusing him 
personally, downloaded files shouldn't be left to unofficial channels -- that's 
where you end up running into people posting files with viruses and so forth.

Google, it is not difficult to script a regeneration of a Zip file once new 
additions arrive, or once fonts are removed (if that ever happens).  Get on 
this immediately!

Original comment by astrav...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2011 at 8:14

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Why in the world is this item marked as "Fixed" when it has not in any way been 
fixed?  The bug is that there is no up-to-date way to download the entire 
Google Web Fonts collection in a Zip file from the official site.

IT IS NOT FIXED YET!

Original comment by astrav...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2011 at 8:16

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LOUD NOISES!

Original comment by paidvide...@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2011 at 5:56

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Since Google didn't actually fix it, I have compiled all 484 TTF files into a 
single RAR (best compression) archive without them being in separate folders so 
they can be easily installed on a machine.
Get the the archive from: 
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=1e24d1f088f57788&sc=documents&id=1E24D1F088F57788
%21106

Uncompressed archive is 114MB.

Original comment by andrezad...@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2011 at 9:57

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Andrezadink - Joe Maller has been providing this same thing for quite some 
time...
http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/

Original comment by jbrown...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2011 at 2:37

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Joe Maller's are still all in separate folders... I've taken them out of the 
folders so they all can be selected and installed easily.

Original comment by andrezad...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2011 at 7:58

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Dear Andrez,

When I was using Joe's zip, all I did was:
1. open the folder of folders,
2. do a search for '.*tf' 
3. take the contents of all results into my fonts folder.

It seems to be a quick workaround for the 'separate folder' problem..

Original comment by soreth...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2011 at 2:16

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I'll work on a script to distribute a ZIP from the Google Code site :)

Original comment by dcrossland@google.com on 16 Jul 2011 at 10:22

• Changed state: Accepted

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Great news. About time ;-)

Original comment by marekven...@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2011 at 10:24

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Thank you for reopening this issue, and working at fixing it!

Original comment by astrav...@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2011 at 11:34

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I would also recommend, if it's not too difficult, to have additional dated zip 
files with only newly added or changed fonts.  As the collection grows larger, 
the base download also grows larger.  So it would be convenient if people could 
download a monthly update Zip of only the changes.

Cheers.

Original comment by astrav...@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2011 at 11:36

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Thanks for reopening the issue, greatly appreciated

Original comment by juandani...@gmail.com on 17 Jul 2011 at 3:01

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I wasn't able to locate the zip on the web site (comment 33) but here is an 
extraction I was able to do using 

7za -a  -r -tzip googlefonts-2011-08-23.zip @../listfile.txt

With listfile.txt ...

*.otf
*.ttf
*.txt
README
LICENSE

This gives the license files and as a consequence necessitated keeping the 
directory structure.

Provided on an all care and no responsibility basis.

http://paulanorman.info/thanks-google/

Paul

Original comment by paul.a.norman on 23 Aug 2011 at 4:18

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Okay, first point: this site is WAY too confusing for designers who don't 
understand what to do with Mercurial, myself included. Can't Google simply put 
up some links to consolidated ZIP or RAR files on the Web Fonts portal instead?

Otherwise, it would be helpful if someone posted a tutorial indicating what I 
do with all these weird files Mercurial seems to be downloading. So far I have 
over 330 MB of data and have yet to see a single TTF file. I'm worried I may 
actually be wasting tons of time doing it this way versus braving the tedium of 
dozens of instances of "click-review-download" as was my first instinct.

Either way, this is a usability issue. Learning a complex versioning/download 
system should be optional. There's some room for improvement here.  :)

Original comment by crimsonh...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2011 at 8:16

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Please use a decent archive format of xz.
http://tukaani.org/xz/format.html

Original comment by abushcra...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2011 at 9:26

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How about a log in with a gmail account so you are given the option to only 
download a "latest" batch that has new & changed fonts.

Another idea, how about pairing with Adobe so that adobe just goes out and 
grabs new/changed fonts when it loads and then keeps them organized under a 
"google fonts" section. Just wishing here...

Original comment by adam.w.k...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2011 at 7:31

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Adam, check out the TypeDNS Adobe plugin :)

Original comment by dcrossland@google.com on 31 Aug 2011 at 8:32

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I am a novice.
To get all the Google Web fonts I downloaded  Mercurial for Mac OS X here: 
http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/

then after the download...
go to Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app, run Terminal.
Just cut and paste this into Terminal.app.
hg clone https://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/ googlefontdirectory;

It will take a few minutes to download.
then go to your username folder (home) and open googlefontdirectory folder or
search for "googlefontdirectory" using Spotlight.

The fonts will be in there.

***Every once in a while open up Terminal and enter:
cd googlefontdirectory; hg pull;

this will update your font files.

Just remember that you have to install Mercurial First.

Hope this made sense. Its really easy, and I hope my trial and error will help 
you all catch your own fish. :)

Original comment by kevhatan...@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2011 at 7:52

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Re: Comment 43 above
I found and followed the instructions but no fonts showed up in the 
googlefontdirectory folder in my home folder (I have Mac OS 10.6). Also I don't 
see where Mercurial downloaded. If anyone can help, let me know.

Original comment by graef.he...@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2011 at 12:19

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Mercurial downloaded to the download folder.
It then installed to Library/Python... but I'm not sure what that is for. I 
couldn't find anything in there.

Original comment by kevhatan...@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2011 at 12:28

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It looks like the fonts are now there - it took a WHILE! Thanks.

Original comment by graef.he...@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2011 at 12:37

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Cool! Glad it worked :)

Original comment by kevhatan...@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2011 at 12:40

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I agree to have a easier solution. Mercurial is a pain in the ass for non 
programmers / non Linux users. After all, it only downloads the fonts to a 
folder, and later, you need to manually install the fonts (Mac user). What will 
happen when I want to update the fonts? Yes, Mercurial will download only the 
new fonts, but I won't know which ones are the new ones. Also, I have to use 
double space to store fonts in this way: 700mb for the folder, and the same 
space for the installed fonts. As it keeps growing, the problem will be worse.

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Original comment by abushcra...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2011 at 6:43

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Re: Comment 49 (symbolic links)
Where do you explain how to use "symbolic links"? I have a Mac and have the 
same questions as in Comment 48.
Thanks

Original comment by marinhan...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2011 at 7:55