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Whoa. How does this work? One of the major issues we had at my previous company weaning people off of powerpoint (to google docs) was brand fonts. Ours, of cou

by dijit 7mo ago

Whoa. How does this work? One of the major issues we had at my previous company weaning people off of powerpoint (to google docs) was brand fonts. Ours, of course. A lot of what is considered brand identity in presentations comes from fonts, which makes Google Docs Slides a non-starter for many unfortunately. (we ended up making them in powerpoint and using the Google Docs compatibility mode with pptx).

rafram 7mo ago
> 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.
mhitza 7mo ago
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.
- dijit 7mo ago
  Oh thanks! I looked but I missed that. So, I need to be super rich? Thats sad.
  - vrganj 7mo ago
    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?
    - Someone 7mo ago
      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.
      - Dylan16807 7mo ago
        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.
        ryandrake 7mo ago
        The analogies with physical businesses never make sense. Running an application on your own computer is nothing like eating at a restaurant. Just because the software is obtained from a server somewhere doesn't mean it's like going to a physical place to eat. Browsing to www.company.com is not akin to walking into a company's physical store. You're not "there." There is no "there."
      - shiroiuma 7mo ago
        >If you want to drink your own wine in a restaurant, you have to pay for that, too. Depends on the place. Tons of restaurants in New Jersey encourage you to bring your own wine bottle and don't charge a "corking fee".
    - Andrex 7mo ago
      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.
      - vrganj 7mo ago
  - crazygringo 7mo ago
    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.
    - Freak_NL 7mo ago
      Basically the level where you've progressed from user to customer.
Mattwmaster58 7mo ago
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> <meta charset='utf-8'><meta charset="utf-8"><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  </body> </html>

by dijit 7mo ago

rafram 7mo ago

> 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.

mhitza 7mo ago

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.

dijit 7mo ago
Oh thanks! I looked but I missed that. So, I need to be super rich? Thats sad.
- vrganj 7mo ago
  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?
  - Someone 7mo ago
    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.
    - Dylan16807 7mo ago
      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.
      - ryandrake 7mo ago
        The analogies with physical businesses never make sense. Running an application on your own computer is nothing like eating at a restaurant. Just because the software is obtained from a server somewhere doesn't mean it's like going to a physical place to eat. Browsing to www.company.com is not akin to walking into a company's physical store. You're not "there." There is no "there."
    - shiroiuma 7mo ago
      >If you want to drink your own wine in a restaurant, you have to pay for that, too. Depends on the place. Tons of restaurants in New Jersey encourage you to bring your own wine bottle and don't charge a "corking fee".
  - Andrex 7mo ago
    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.
    - vrganj 7mo ago
- crazygringo 7mo ago
  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.
  - Freak_NL 7mo ago
    Basically the level where you've progressed from user to customer.

Mattwmaster58 7mo ago

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> <meta charset='utf-8'><meta charset="utf-8"><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  </body> </html>