The goal of Google Fonts has always been to bring beautiful, open-source fonts to the web,
fast and free of cost. Starting today, you can download these fonts for offline access on your
desktop. We’ve made all of the fonts from the Google Fonts directory available in SkyFonts, a tool from Monotype that allows you to install and sync
fonts from the web onto your Windows or Mac OS X devices.
SkyFonts automatically updates the fonts installed on your system whenever they are updated on
Google Fonts – for example, when new characters are added – ensuring you always have the
latest fonts to work with. And with the fonts installed locally, browsing websites that use
web fonts will be faster, since your browser won’t have to spend time fetching font data. If
you’d rather download the source files to edit the font data directly, you can always do so
from the project at Google
Code.
So whether you’re a designer looking to incorporate popular web fonts into your typography, or
you just want to improve your browsing speed by by keeping local, synced copies of fonts, you
can take advantage of SkyFonts.
Raziel Alvarez is a software engineer
interested in making computing more useful, and usable, through engaging applications and more
natural user interfaces. He is part of the Google Fonts Team, responsible for unleashing text
by bringing typographical diversity to the Web.
By Raziel Alvarez, Google Fonts Team