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Bug 653820 - online fonts
online fonts
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkFontChooser
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
: 595101 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-07-01 14:12 UTC by Matthias Clasen
Modified: 2018-04-15 00:35 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Matthias Clasen 2011-07-01 14:12:09 UTC 
It would be nice if the font chooser would allow to search for more fonts from online sources.

One very nice option is Googles webfonts. 
http://www.google.com/webfonts/v2#HomePlace:home
They offer an api, and all their fonts are open-source and free to use.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2011-07-01 14:22:00 UTC 
If the API are usable, once somebody has an implementation, we'll probably want to check whether the ToS allow our use (eg. contact the Board)

I'm also figuring that a lot of those would already be installed and packaged by font enthusiasts, so there needs to be a check whether they're already installed or not.

Terms of service:
http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/terms.html
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2014-01-25 04:01:16 UTC 
*** Bug 595101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2018-02-10 05:09:23 UTC 
We're moving to gitlab! As part of this move, we are moving bugs to NEEDINFO if they haven't seen activity in more than a year. If this issue is still important to you and still relevant with GTK+ 3.22 or master, please reopen it and we will migrate it to gitlab.
Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2018-04-15 00:35:12 UTC 
As announced a while ago, we are migrating to gitlab, and bugs that haven't seen activity in the last year or so will be not be migrated, but closed out in bugzilla.

If this bug is still relevant to you, you can open a new issue describing the symptoms and how to reproduce it with gtk 3.22.x or master in gitlab:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/new