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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. Norm

• 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
        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!
        • brk 7mo ago
          It doesn't matter on the corporate identity either.
          • selectodude 7mo ago
            It may not matter to you, but in this circumstance, your opinion doesn’t matter.
            • SAI_Peregrinus 7mo ago
              It only matters to the designers. The users don't care which sans-serif font the designers picked, they all look the same.
              • circuit10 7mo ago
                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
              • vrganj 7mo ago
    • wongarsu 7mo ago
      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
      • gschizas 7mo ago
        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 )
    • colejohnson66 7mo ago
      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.
    • shiroiuma 7mo ago
      Most people decided that convenience was better than freedom and self-determination. If people want the freedom to use their own fonts in their own presentation, and don't want to pay handsomely for the privilege, LibreOffice is freely downloadable. But they don't want to use that for some reason.
    • wvh 7mo ago
      We ignored Richard Stallman?
  • 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.