Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography

When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of this Google Fonts Knowledge module is to show that there are many considerations that can improve our type choices.

Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography

We all use type every day, from word processors and social media graphic apps to professional desktop design software and hand-coded websites. Good typography is within everyone’s reach, and it starts with the fundamentals.

Any font that’s used in a website’s design that isn’t installed by default on the end user’s device—a counterpart to a “system font.

The Merriweather project is led by Sorkin Type, a type design foundry based in Western Massachaussets, USA. To contribute, see github.com/SorkinType/Merriweather

Jost is an original font created by indestructible type*. It is inspired by 1920s German sans-serifs. This is version 3.7. Jost is designed and maintained by Owen Earl, who is the creator of the font foundry indestructible type*. in 2020 Owen Earl, and Mirko Velimirovic worked together to make Jost a variable font.

A beginners' guide to choosing web fonts.

It is designed for display purposes but kept legible enough to use in small sizes as well. In 2016, in collaboration with Andrew, it was thoroughly revised by Thomas Jockin to improve the quality. In 2019, Mirko Velimirovic converted the family into a variable font. To contribute, see

The project was developed by Indian Type Foundry (ITF). The Devanagari was initially designed by Ninad Kale, while the Latin was initially designed by Jonny Pinhorn. Following their principal phase of designing the first 5 styles, the typeface was later refined, and expanded to include multiple weights and italics, by the ITF studio team.