Google Fonts

1,942 open-licensed families with a free CDN and a public metadata endpoint

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Google Fonts is the default open-source webfont catalogue: 1,942 families as of August 2026, broken down as 717 sans-serif, 467 display, 358 handwriting, 349 serif and 51 monospace. Almost every family is under the SIL Open Font Licence, with about 44 under Apache 2.0 and 5 under the Ubuntu Font Licence, so the fonts are free to self-host, subset, modify and ship commercially. Delivery is via the fonts.googleapis.com/css2 endpoint or direct download, and the whole catalogue is queryable as JSON.

For an agent

The browse UI at fonts.google.com is a JavaScript shell and returns nothing useful to a fetcher — hit https://fonts.google.com/metadata/fonts instead, which is an unauthenticated JSON list of every family with its category, axes, subsets, designers and popularity rank (strip the anti-JSON-hijack prefix before the first brace). Use the css2 endpoint for quick prototypes, but for production prefer self-hosting or Fontsource, since the Google CDN adds a third-party request and gives no caching benefit across sites. The OFL terms let you subset and modify freely, so variable-axis subsetting is fair game.

Why it is here. The licence floor for web typography — if a font is here, you can ship it anywhere without a EULA conversation.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Facts

License: SIL Open Font License, Apache 2.0
Pricing: Free, Open source
Framework: Not applicable
Styling: Vanilla CSS, CSS custom properties
Distribution: Web app / online tool, Public HTTP API, Direct download / asset pack, GitHub repository
Platform: Web, Cross-platform, Print / static document
Content type: Fonts / typefaces
Agent readiness: Public API without auth, Machine-readable index, Structured documentation, Client-rendered shell
Accessibility: Not applicable
Maturity: Actively maintained

Components it ships

Typography

Notable for

1,942 families, 717 of them sans-serif
OFL for almost the entire catalogue
unauthenticated /metadata/fonts JSON index
variable-font axes exposed per family
css2 CDN endpoint

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-16. HTTP 200. https://fonts.google.com/ (JS shell, no readable content), https://fonts.google.com/metadata/fonts (parsed: 1,942 families with category breakdown), https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/developer_api, https://api.github.com/repos/google/fonts/contents/{ofl,apache,ufl}, https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2 (200)

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