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by dijit9 hours ago |
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upvoteby mhitza9 hours ago|
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From the small info icon that opens up a section.

  > Google Workspace lets brands who pay enough embed custom corporate fonts into their docs and slides. Normally, these are locked to just those brands shelling out for custom typefaces, but there's one loophole: the ol' copy/paste. Below are a selection of brand fonts with which you can do exactly that. Enjoy.
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upvoteby dijit9 hours ago|
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Oh thanks! I looked but I missed that.

So, I need to be super rich? Thats sad.

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upvoteby crazygringo7 hours ago|
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No, you need to be at least a medium-sized corporation basically.

Then because your contract with Google is large enough to matter, they'll add your custom corporate branded fonts to your font dropdowns.

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upvoteby Freak_NL7 hours ago|
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Basically the level where you've progressed from user to customer.
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upvoteby vrganj8 hours ago|
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Why did we go from owning the software we run and being able to just modify things as we see fit to "You have to give Google a lot of money so you can have your own font in your own presentation"?

Where did things go this wrong?

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upvoteby Andrex8 hours ago|
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I'm going to go the unpopular route and ask, how mission-critical are fonts, really? Protected fonts such as these can't be mission-critical, legally, right?

Never felt myself lacking for fonts in Docs, myself. Quite the opposite, Google Fonts has way more than I'd ever have preinstalled and is now my primary avenue for typeface discovery.

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upvoteby vrganj8 hours ago|
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Depends on what you do.

Are you building a slide deck on your systems architecture? Probably doesn't matter.

Are you building a marketing deck on your new corporate identity? Probably matters a lot.

Either way, the tool I'm using shouldn't be the one deciding what matters and what doesn't. Just let me use my font as I please!

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upvoteby Andrex5 hours ago|
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I could see some kafkaesque organization writing-up or firing someone for using the wrong font on a PowerPoint presentation.

Such companies should be mocked and shamed, not held up as examples to follow.

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upvoteby brk7 hours ago|
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It doesn't matter on the corporate identity either.
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upvoteby selectodude7 hours ago|
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It may not matter to you, but in this circumstance, your opinion doesn’t matter.
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upvoteby SAI_Peregrinus6 hours ago|
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It only matters to the designers. The users don't care which sans-serif font the designers picked, they all look the same.
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upvoteby circuit106 hours ago|
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It’s subtle, but attention to detail all around will add up to something that looks polished. I appreciate that as a user, at least
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upvoteby rafram6 hours ago|
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Fine, I’ll take the bait. If this is true, then why isn’t everything in the world Arial/Helvetica?
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upvoteby bigstrat20033 hours ago|
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Because people are stupid enough to worry about many things which don't matter. This includes, but is not limited to, font choices.
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upvoteby 98642478887541 hours ago|
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That's the most retarded take I've seen in a while.
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upvoteby vrganj6 hours ago|
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The designers are generally the ones doing and watching presentations on design. They are also the users of the office suite in this case.
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upvoteby wongarsu7 hours ago|
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You can still pay Microsoft money to get a desktop copy of Powerpoint, which will use your system fonts. Using google docs is entirely self-inflicted

Granted, you now need to pay Microsoft a monthly fee for Powerpoint instead of a one-time-fee. But that is in large part because too many people preferred Google Docs, so Microsoft tried to become more like them

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upvoteby gschizas7 hours ago|
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You can still pay Microsoft a one-time-fee instead of a yearly one. You can even go to a physical store and get a physical box with Office (granted, it doesn't contain anything inside it anymore )
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upvoteby colejohnson664 hours ago|
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When we stopped paying for things. Seriously. If you pay for software, you can modify it. If you pay Google, they’ll modify it for you.

Yes, the EULA may prohibit modifications of local installations, but you’re not physically restricted from doing so - only contractually.

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upvoteby Someone8 hours ago|
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If you want to drink your own wine in a restaurant, you have to pay for that, too.

This isn’t much different; there still are plenty of non-Google options for creating presentations to choose from that do allow using your own font.

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upvoteby Dylan168071 hours ago|
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If SaaS is a restaurant, what's software I purchase? A personal robot chef with an infinite ingredient supply, no charge for using my own wine?

I think that supports the "Where did things go this wrong?" sentiment.

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upvoteby Mattwmaster586 hours ago|
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copy/paste doesn't tell you much - here's the text/html content they put on your clipboard if you're curious. Apparently GDocs supports this out of the box, just hides it from the selection box. Which makes sense given that it doesn't support any font.

<html> <body> <!--StartFragment--><meta charset='utf-8'><meta charset="utf-8"><b style="font-weight:normal;" id="docs-internal-guid-8b11d82e-1a25-4b6a-be64-ebdd55b2a698"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:22pt;font-family:'Facebook Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">I just stole Facebook Sans</span></p></b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><!--EndFragment--> </body> </html>

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upvoteby rafram9 hours ago|
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> Google Workspace lets brands who pay enough embed custom corporate fonts into their docs and slides. Normally, these are locked to just those brands shelling out for custom typefaces, but there's one loophole: the ol' copy/paste.
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