Use Google Font

Adds a Google Font from https://fonts.google.com/ and activate the showtext package. This function is particularly useful for using Google Fonts for [createLogo]createLogo.

activate_google_font(
  name,
  regular.wt = 400,
  bold.wt = 700,
  repo = "http://fonts.gstatic.com/",
  db_cache = TRUE,
  handle = curl::new_handle()
)

Arguments

name	name of the font that will be searched in Google Fonts
regular.wt	font weight for the regular font face, usually 400
bold.wt	font weight for the bold font face, usually 700
repo	the site that hosts the font files. Default is the official repository `http://fonts.gstatic.com/` provided by Google Fonts.
db_cache	whether to obtain font metadata from a cache site. Using cache is typically faster, but not as update-to-date as using the official API. If `db_cache` is set to `FALSE`, then metadata are retrieved from the Google Fonts API.
handle	a curl handle object passed to `curl::curl_download()`.

Arguments

See also