google-font-download

This is a small shell script that allows you to download Google's web fonts to
your local file system. Additionally, a CSS file that uses your local copy of
the fonts is generated. You may want to use this if you want to avoid
requesting resources from 3rd party servers (for example for privacy reasons or
because you do not have a connection to the public internet).

Requirements

To run this script, you will need:

• Bash (>= 4.x)
• curl
• getopt, preferrably a version that preserves quoted whitespace and supports long options
• tput
• fmt
• sed, in a version that has extended regex support using either -E (BSD) or -r (GNU)
• awk
• tr
• grep

License

The script is released under the 2-clause BSD license. The SPDX identifier of
this license is BSD-2-Clause. See the LICENSE file for
the terms.

Usage

Synopsis

google-font-download [OPTION...] [FONT...]

Options

Positional Arguments

This script accepts an arbitrary number of font specs. A font spec consists
of a font name as accepted by Google's servers, optionally followed by
a colon, an optional font weight in numbers or the string "bold" and an
optional font style of "italic" (or "i") for italics. In EBNF:

fontspec = fontname, [ ":", [ fontweight ], [ fontstyle ] ]
fontweight = number, "bold"
number = { digit }
digit = "0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"
fontstyle = "italic", "i"

While Google's servers will accept other inputs and abbreviations for font
weight and font style, they are not supported by this script.

Note: if you don't use the URL argument, your font spec should not be URL-encoded and only one font weight
is supported per font specification. If you want to download multiple font
weights or styles, provide multiple font specs.

For example, to download Open Sans in

• light (300),
• normal (400),
• normal italic (400italic),
• bold (700), and
• bold italic (700italic),
  run:

google-font-download \
    "Open Sans:300" "Open Sans:400" "Open Sans:400italic" \
    "Open Sans:700" "Open Sans:700italic"

or in URL format:

google-font-download --url="https://fonts.google.com/?selection.family=Open+Sans:300,400,400i,700,700i"

You can also mix the arguments:

google-font-download --url="https://fonts.google.com/?selection.family=Open+Sans:300,400,400i" \
"Open Sans:700" "Open Sans:700i"