Google Fonts was launched in 2010[5] and revamped in 2011,[6] 2016,[7], 2020[8] and 2023[9]
On March 3, 2020, Google updated the catalog website with support for variable fonts.[citation needed] On March 2, 2021, the Google Fonts team announced they were adding support for open source icons.[10]
Font library
As of January 2025[update], Google Fonts had 1790 font families, including 455 variable font families.[11]
The library is maintained through Google Fonts' GitHub repository, where all font files can be obtained directly. Source files for many of the fonts are available from git repositories within the Google Fonts' GitHub organization, along with libre software tools used by the Google Fonts community.
In February 2022, a German court ruled that a website using Google Fonts violated the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by passing personally identifiable information (IP address) to Google without the user's consent or a legitimate interest in doing so.[13]
The proceedings related to embedding via a link to Google's servers and were only pursued by a warning lawyer with fraudulent intent. If the fonts are integrated from your own website, no information is transferred to Google, so this risk does not exist at all. See article in the German Wikipedia for further details.
