Adding Google Fonts to a Template or Document
While PandaDoc offers some great built in fonts, sometimes you want some variety or a closer match to your branding. You can quickly and easily add Google Fonts to your templates and documents.
How To:
1. Navigate to Fonts.Google.com, once there you are presented with some of their most popular and newest fonts that they offer. You can select a font from this front page or search for a font name or type.
For this post, I’ll pick a popular one, Montserrat. Once you click on the font you would like to use, you will then need to pick the font weight you want by clicking + Select this style.
2. After the Style is selected, on the right click ‘Embed’ and then select ‘@import’. You will then highlight and copy just the URL that is between the " ".
3. Now that we have the correct font URL, head back over to your PandaDoc template. On the right click on ‘Design’ (painter's palette) icon. Click Customize Theme > Text (or Heading). From here click the drop down menu next to ‘Font’ and at the bottom of the list you will see, ‘+ Add custom font’. Once selected a window will pop up prompting you to paste in the Google Font URL.
You can add as many Google Fonts you would like within a PandaDoc template or Document, and you can add these fonts to other sections like, Headings font, and Table Design font.
Note:
Not all Fonts listed on Google Fonts are free or true Google Fonts. The site also acts as a repository for 3rd party Font creators to sell their creations. Unfortunately PandaDoc does not support these vendors.
Your Turn
What are some of your favorite Google Fonts that you use?
-
Hi there,
Trying to use Lato with the latin-ext character set to accommodate macronised characters for Te Reo in New Zealand... I've tried this approach using the Google-suggested URL for this character set, but it doesn't seem to achieve the desired result...
This is the embed URL I'm using:
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Lato:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&subset=latin,latin-ext&display=swap
This is the Google fonts page for Lato - note the update about the extended character set:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato#aboutCan you clarify how this is supposed to work, please? Will it overwrite an already available font (e.g. Lato)? Or does it only work for new/different fonts?
-
Hi Nick,
At this time PandaDoc only supports one font-weight per-font, adding multiple won’t work (only one will be available in the app). The character set mentioned is supported but if you already had a version of Lato you may need to completely remove it from the Theme and then add the above-mentioned URL.
To remove the font, simply apply a different font to the theme, and then you will see a red minus symbol. Click there and it will delete the font from that section of the theme (you may have to repeat if it was applied to other parts - like tables.
Hope this helps!
-
Is it possible to add a font permanently?
Our brand uses a font I am having to download every single time I add a template.
Would that be possible to have our branded font (Inter) as default? Inter size 14 rather than Arial size 15. Just so me and my colleague don't have to download it every time?
-
Hi Lucie,
Yes, if you add the font to a theme, and then apply the theme to the new template, then the font should be available there.
For more information on themes please check these two sources:
You can also apply the theme to the account setting so that every new template created will automatically add the theme.
Thanks!
Please sign in to leave a comment.
Comments
4 comments