Tip: Bring your own fonts

Wednesday, August 08, 2007 at 8:56 PM

Posted by James Yum, Support Engineer (Google Desktop Team)

Did you know you can supply custom fonts for use in your gadget? Say you have a font named "illegible" contained in "MyIllegibleFont.TTF". To use the font in your gadget, first add it to gadget.gmanifest:

  <gadget minimumGoogleDesktopVersion="5.0.0.0">
   <install>
     <font src="MyIllegibleFont.TTF"/>
   </install>
   ...
 </gadget>

Now you can use the font in your text elements:

  <label font="illegible">Hello</label>

Check out this knowledge base entry for more information.

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