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Enrico Di Maio
Enrico Di Maio

Reputation: 63

How to implement Google Fonts in ggplot2 graphs?

Is there a way to directly access and implement free fonts (like Google Fonts) with R for graphs (ggplot2), without having them installed on my PC or Mac?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2179

Answers (2)

Jakub Jędrusiak
Jakub Jędrusiak

Reputation: 467

The solution has changed a bit in these years. font_add_google() was moved to the sysfonts package. You also need to activate showtext.

To the beginning of your script or your Quarto file add:

sysfonts::font_add_google(name = "Amatic SC", family = "amatic-sc")
showtext::showtext_auto()

Upvotes: 6

elielink
elielink

Reputation: 1202

I think if I were you, I'd use this showtext package that seems to have a function that looks like this :

library(showtext)
font_add_google(name = "Amatic SC", family = "amatic-sc")

I bet this could solve your problem

You can maybe find more documentation on the package page directly (update --> link in the comment of your question, thanks Stefan) but I found all of this on this page

https://www.r-bloggers.com/2019/03/adding-custom-fonts-to-ggplot-in-r/

Upvotes: 5

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