Offline 'Google' Fonts for 'Markdown' and 'Shiny'

Download 'Google' fonts and generate 'CSS' to use in 'rmarkdown' documents and 'shiny' applications. Some popular fonts are included and ready to use.

gfonts

Download ‘Google’ fonts (via google-webfonts-helper) and generate CSS to use in rmarkdown documents and shiny applications. Some popular fonts are included and ready to use.

Installation

Install from CRAN with:

install.packages("gfonts")

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("dreamRs/gfonts")

Download a font to use it locally

Get the ID of the desired font between 1955 available :

library(gfonts)
get_all_fonts()

Download the files necessary for its use and generate the appropriate CSS code :

setup_font(
  id = "roboto",
  output_dir = "path/to"
)

Use it in {shiny} or {rmarkdown} :

use_font("roboto", "www/css/roboto.css")

:point_right: See detailed example

Included fonts

Some fonts are included in the package and ready to use :

use_pkg_gfont("roboto")

:point_right: See all fonts available

Related packages

• Package googlefontR provides helper functions to ease the use of Google Fonts with R.
• Package showtext makes it easy to use various types of fonts (TrueType, OpenType, Type 1, web fonts, etc.) in R graphs.