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

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 1474 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.