#About
section on any specimen page of Google Fonts to give further information about the font family.
<a>
, <em>
, <i>
, <strong>
, <b>
, <p>
, <ol>
, <ul>
, <li>
<applet>
, <base>
, <embed>
, <form>
, <frame>
, <frameset>
, <head>
, <iframe>
, <link>
, <math>
, <meta>
, <object>
, <script>
, <style>
, <svg>
, <template>
To contribute, see <a href="https://github.com/owner/fontname">github.com/owner/fontname</a>
Text should be updated when the font is upgraded to let people know what changed.
Example:
This font was upgraded in July 2021 to expand language coverage. It is now supporting Greek and Cyrillic.
We only accept .en_us
extension, but you can definitely add a translation to the description in the case when the font is primarily targeting an audience reading a non-latin script.
See Zen+Antique#about as an example, provided by this file DESCRIPTION.en_us.html.
You may format text with the font family by using HTML span tags with the "autonym"
class. This should not be used to style the entire document. Use it sparingly to document available features in the font family. For example, to style the text “THIS TEXT” with the font family, enter HTML like this:
<span class="autonym">THIS TEXT</span>
See Space+Grotesk#about provided by DESCRIPTION.en_us.html as an example: it gives plenty of links (mini-website, original authors, referenced font published in GF), and follows all requirements.
Html snippet
<p>Space Grotesk is a proportional sans-serif typeface variant based on <a href="https://www.colophon-foundry.org">Colophon Foundry's</a> fixed-width <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Space+Mono">Space Mono</a> family (2016).
Originally designed by <a href="https://fonts.floriankarsten.com">Florian Karsten</a> in 2018, Space Grotesk retains the monospace's idiosyncratic details while optimizing for improved readability at non-display sizes.</p>
<p><a href=https://floriankarsten.github.io/space-grotesk/><b>→ floriankarsten.github.io/space-grotesk</b><a><p>
<p>Space Grotesk includes Latin Vietnamese, Pinyin, and all Western, Central, and South-Eastern European language support, as well as several OpenType features (old-style and tabular figures, superscript and subscript numerals, fractions, stylistic alternates).</p>
<p>To contribute, see <a href="https://github.com/floriankarsten/space-grotesk" target="_blank">github.com/floriankarsten/space-grotesk</a>.</p>
Result on Google Fonts
About Space Grotesk
Space Grotesk is a proportional sans-serif typeface variant based on Colophon Foundry’s fixed-width Space Mono family (2016). Originally designed by Florian Karsten in 2018, Space Grotesk retains the monospace’s idiosyncratic details while optimizing for improved readability at non-display sizes.
→ floriankarsten.github.io/space-grotesk
Space Grotesk includes Latin Vietnamese, Pinyin, and all Western, Central, and South-Eastern European language support, as well as several OpenType features (old-style and tabular figures, superscript and subscript numerals, fractions, stylistic alternates).
To contribute, see github.com/floriankarsten/space-grotesk.
If the “first” script of your font is not Latin, we strongly recommend you to also provide a translation of the description using the actual main script. This localised text must be in the same html snippet as the english text.
See Zen+Antique#about as an example, provided by this file DESCRIPTION.en_us.html.
Html snippet
<p>Zen Antique features two kinds of Antique Japanese with Kanji.
The impression of the weights (thickness) of strokes are different among characters—Hiragana and Latin alphabets are slightly lighter,
while Katakana and Kanji are slightly heavier, which gives the unique rhythm and taste in this font.
<a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Zen+Antique+Soft">Zen Antique Soft</a> has a slightly rounded effect on the corners.</p>
<p>To contribute to the project, visit <a href="https://github.com/googlefonts/zen-antique">github.com/googlefonts/zen-antique</a></p>
<p>Zen Antique には、古風な雰囲気の二種類の漢字を含む日本語書体があります。
文字によって画線の太さに変化があり、ひらがなと欧文は細め、カタカナと漢字は太めで、フォントに独特のリズムと味わいを与えています。
また、<a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Zen+Antique+Soft?subset=japanese">Zen Antique Soft</a> では、角が少し丸くなっています。</p>
<p>このプロジェクトに参加して貢献したい方は、次の URL をご参照ください。<a href="https://github.com/googlefonts/zen-antique">github.com/googlefonts/zen-antique</a></p>
Result on Google Fonts
About Zen Antique
Zen Antique features two kinds of Antique Japanese with Kanji. The impression of the weights (thickness) of strokes are different among characters—Hiragana and Latin alphabets are slightly lighter, while Katakana and Kanji are slightly heavier, which gives the unique rhythm and taste in this font. Zen Antique Soft has a slightly rounded effect on the corners.
To contribute to the project, visit github.com/googlefonts/zen-antique
Zen Antique には、古風な雰囲気の二種類の漢字を含む日本語書体があります。 文字によって画線の太さに変化があり、ひらがなと欧文は細め、カタカナと漢字は太めで、フォントに独特のリズムと味わいを与えています。 また、Zen Antique Soft では、角が少し丸くなっています。
このプロジェクトに参加して貢献したい方は、次の URL をご参照ください。github.com/googlefonts/zen-antique
The Article is a new expanded version of the DESCRIPTION.en_us.html
file that can include images and longer-form information and content. It appears on the Google Fonts site as the main content in the About & License section. For example, see the About page for Gulzar, and then view the ofl/gulzar
directory in the Google Fonts repo: github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/gulzar.
The ARTICLE.en_us.html
file and images should live in an article/
directory alongside the METDATA.pb
file in the root of the ofl/fontname
directory. Typically, only the Noto fonts are expected to combine the DESCRIPTION.en_us.html
and ARTICLE.en_us.html
files. For all the other families (non-Noto), if an article with images is added, the description should be overwritten by the Article. This means we should shift all the Description content into the Article and keep and empty the DESCRIPTION.en_us.html
— note that dev-sandbox will be broken if you remove the description file, so don’t.
Here are some guidelines for how to prepare the article/
directory and files:
Images
Allowed HTML elements: Same as description with the addition of <img>
and more elements including:
<a>
, <b>
, <blockquote>
, <code>
, <em>
, <figcaption>
, <figure>
, <hr>
, <h3>
, <h4>
, <h5>
, <i>
, <img>
, <li>
, <p>
, <pre>
, <span>
, <strong>
, <ul>
, <ol>
, <sub>
Forbidden HTML elements: Remain the same, including:
<applet>
, <base>
, <embed>
, <form>
, <frame>
, <frameset>
, <head>
, <iframe>
, <link>
, <math>
, <meta>
, <object>
, <script>
, <style>
, <svg>
, <template>