CACapitalistCartr·May 1, 2013
In Keep Google fonts updated on your desktopw0ng
googlefontdirectory
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w0ng / googlefontdirectory
googlefontdirectory
Obsolete. Use https://github.com/google/fonts
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| May 1, 14:00 | 2013-05-01 14:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 15:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 1, 15:00 | 2013-05-01 15:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 16:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 1, 16:00 | 2013-05-01 16:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 17:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 1, 17:00 | 2013-05-01 17:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 1, 18:00 | 2013-05-01 18:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 19:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 1, 19:00 | 2013-05-01 19:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 20:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 1, 20:00 | 2013-05-01 20:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 21:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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3 sourcesI put this up a while back (and need to update it): http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/
Google changed repository layout so there are a lot more subfolders to sort through but `hg clone https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/` still works fine.
(edit: just saw @shadowmint's update, agreed about https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory being better in every way.)
In Keep Google fonts updated on your desktopWhat a completely terrible website.
"Would you like to install our font installer?"
No? You want to add a font to a collection to download it?
"How about installing our mac client to help with that???!!?"
....
do not want.
This is even more painful than downloading the fonts manually.
(edit: this is about 100000% more pleasant to use in every way: https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory, for anyone else looking for an easy way to get the fonts that does not involve convoluted websites)
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