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Co-authored-by: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>
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This project mainly contains the binary font files served by Google Fonts ([fonts.google.com](https://fonts.google.com))
The top-level directories indicate the license of all files found within them.
Subdirectories are named according to the family name of the fonts within.
Subdirectories are named according to the family name of the fonts within.
Each family subdirectory contains the `.ttf` font files served by Google Fonts, plus a `METADATA.pb` file with metadata for the family (such as information on the project designer(s), genre category, and license - [learn more](https://github.com/googlefonts/gf-docs/tree/master/METADATA)) and a `DESCRIPTION.en_us.html` with a description of the family in US English.
Each family subdirectory contains the `.ttf` font files served by Google Fonts, plus a `METADATA.pb` file with metadata for the family (such as information on the project designer(s), genre category, and license - [learn more](https://github.com/googlefonts/gf-docs/tree/master/METADATA)) and a `DESCRIPTION.en_us.html` with a description of the family in US English.
The `/catalog` subdirectory contains additional metadata, such as profile texts and portrait/avatar images of font designers, and this is open for contributions and corrections from anyone via Github.
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## Self Host Fonts Available From Google Fonts
Since all the fonts available here are licensed with permission to redistribute, subject to the license terms, you can self-host.
Since all the fonts available here are licensed with permission to redistribute, subject to the license terms, you can self-host using a variety of third-party projects.
One popular service is [Fontsource](https://github.com/fontsource/fontsource), which offers bundled NPM packages.
## Download All Google Fonts
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#### Sync With Git
You can also sync the collection with git so that you can update by only fetching what has changed. To learn how to use git, Github provides [illustrated guides](https://guides.github.com) and a [youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/user/GitHubGuides), and an [interactive learning lab](https://lab.github.com).
You can also sync the collection with git so that you can update by only fetching what has changed. To learn how to use git, Github provides [illustrated guides](https://guides.github.com) and a [youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/user/GitHubGuides), and an [interactive learning lab](https://lab.github.com).
Free, open-source git applications are available for [Windows](https://git-scm.com/download/gui/windows) and [Mac OS X](https://git-scm.com/download/gui/mac).
## Licensing
## License
It is important to always read the license for every font that you use.
Each font family directory contains the appropriate license file for the fonts in that directory.
Each font family directory contains the appropriate license file for the fonts in that directory.
The fonts files themselves also contain licensing and authorship metadata.
Most of the fonts in the collection use the SIL Open Font License, v1.1.
Some fonts use the Apache 2 license.
The Ubuntu fonts use the Ubuntu Font License v1.0.
Some fonts use the Apache 2 license.
The Ubuntu fonts use the Ubuntu Font License v1.0.
The SIL Open Font License has an option for copyright holders to include a Reserved Font Name requirement, and this option is used with some of the fonts.
The SIL Open Font License has an option for copyright holders to include a Reserved Font Name requirement, and this option is used with some of the fonts.
If you modify those fonts, please take care of this important detail.
## Source Files