google_fonts 0.3.0

A package to include fonts from fonts.google.com in your flutter app.

google_fonts

NOTE: This package is in Beta. The API is subject to change.

The google_fonts package for Flutter allows you to easily use any of the 977 fonts (and their variants) from fonts.google.com in your Flutter app.

Getting Started

With the google_fonts package, .ttf or .otf files do not need to be stored in your assets folder and mapped in the pubspec. Instead, they can be fetched once via http at runtime, and cached in the app's file system. This is ideal for development, and can be the preferred behavior for production apps that are looking to reduce the app bundle size. Still, you may at any time choose to include the font file in the assets, and the Google Fonts package will prioritize pre-bundled files over http fetching. Because of this, the Google Fonts package allows developers to choose between pre-bundling the fonts and loading them over http, while using the same API.

For example, say you want to use the Lato font from Google Fonts in your Flutter app.

First, add the google_fonts package to your pubspec dependencies.

To import GoogleFonts:

import 'package:google_fonts/google_fonts.dart';

To use GoogleFonts with the default TextStyle:

Text(
  'This is Google Fonts',
  style: GoogleFonts.lato(),
),

To use GoogleFonts with an existing TextStyle:

Text(
  'This is Google Fonts',
  style: GoogleFonts.lato(
    textStyle: TextStyle(color: Colors.blue, letterSpacing: .5),
  ),
),

or

Text(
  'This is Google Fonts',
  style: GoogleFonts.lato(textStyle: Theme.of(context).textTheme.display1),
),

To override the fontSize, fontWeight, or fontStyle:

Text(
  'This is Google Fonts',
  style: GoogleFonts.lato(
    textStyle: Theme.of(context).textTheme.display1,
    fontSize: 48,
    fontWeight: FontWeight.w700,
    fontStyle: FontStyle.italic,
  ),
),

You can also use GoogleFonts.latoTextTheme() to make or modify an entire text theme to use the "Lato" font.

MaterialApp(
  theme: ThemeData(
    textTheme: GoogleFonts.latoTextTheme(
      Theme.of(context).textTheme,
    ),
  ),
);

Or, if you want a TextTheme where a couple of styles should use a different font:

final textTheme = Theme.of(context).textTheme;

MaterialApp(
  theme: ThemeData(
    textTheme: GoogleFonts.latoTextTheme(textTheme).copyWith(
      body1: GoogleFonts.oswald(textStyle: textTheme.body1),
    ),
  ),
);

Choosing to include a font without having to http fetch it

If you want the Google Fonts package to use font files that you have included in your pubspec's assets (rather than fetching at runtime via http), first download the font files from https://fonts.google.com. Then, create a folder at the top level of your app directory named google_fonts, and copy the font files that you want to be used into that folder.

You only need to copy the files in for the font weight and font styles that you are using for any given family. Italic styles will include Italic in the filename, and the font weights map to filenames as follows:

{
  FontWeight.w100: 'Thin',
  FontWeight.w200: 'ExtraLight',
  FontWeight.w300: 'Light',
  FontWeight.w400: 'Regular',
  FontWeight.w500: 'Medium',
  FontWeight.w600: 'SemiBold',
  FontWeight.w700: 'Bold',
  FontWeight.w800: 'ExtraBold',
  FontWeight.w900: 'Black',
}

Finally, make sure you have listed the google_fonts folder in your pubspec.yaml.

Note: Since these files are listed as assets, there is no need to list them in the fonts section of the pubspec.yaml. This can be done because the files are consistently named from the Google Fonts API (so be sure not to rename them!)