To make it easy for the developers to include any web font in their page, Google launched Google Font API at Google I/O May 2010. Ever since that, Google has been making use of the web fonts on its products. Fonts API has been used in the Google form templates. Now, Google Docs gets the web fonts support. Six new fonts has been added to Font API – Droid Sans, Droid Seriff, Calibri, Cambria, Consolas and Corsiva.
Web fonts on Google Docs
Google docs has been supporting only a limited set of fonts till now. The integration of Google Font API brings cool new fonts to Google Docs. Currently, the web fonts are supported only for English. Please choose the language as “English” from File > Language > English. All the web fonts should appear in the fonts drop down (check out the screenshot). Choose the font of your liking. Another interesting thing here is that the fonts are preserved while importing a document created with MS Word 2007.
On another development, Google is working on bringing the document editing to Android and iPad. This move will bring more mobile users for Google Docs. Currently, Google docs on mobile has only limited features and requires third party tools to edit the documents.
-- Varun
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