Support for Adobe Typekit or locally stored fonts in Theme Manager

Feature Request
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Google fonts are great and provide a huge library but there are times when a particular font is needed which isn’t there like Adobe Typekit. Can we have support for these and also locally stored fonts in the Theme Manager UI? It could just allow us to manually enter font names into the UI so they are then available in the fonts list so it doesn’t need the entire Adobe library.

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Would be useful, so may customers come to me having spent a fortune with “creative” agencies to do mock-ups of websites and with recommendations for fonts the agency used when designing with things like Illustrator only for me to tell them that the fonts are proprietary, unsupported by Wappler and not ideal for web use.
I generally recommend they use the closest Google font but I accept that is not always an acceptable alternative

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Yep, you’re spot on Brian. I always aim for Google fonts but once a designer is involved, you can never be sure.

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In my personal experience I wouldn’t work with anything to do with Adobe, they are notorious for discontinuing features and applications overnight. When it comes to fonts, there are thousands of pages besides Google fonts like 1000fonts, fontsquirrel and myfonts that have better fonts than Adobe .

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I’m with you on that but if a company’s branding uses a font which is only available in Typekit or by uploading the font file then we have no choice. That’s why this would be a good thing to make available in Wappler.

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This is the choice I usually recommend when it isn’t on Google. Typekit provides embed code - use the website not the Creative Cloud app for some features and be sure you license a font (even no cost options) for each site so you get a different access key for each site you set up

Embed codes gives you the Adobe-specific into that is similar to the instructions Font Squirrel gives Help Installing the Free Fonts » Font Squirrel

A little manual CSS and you’re set!

PS - had a non-profit client spend like $1,200 to license Calibri one time … that was a hard cart to check out with! LOL

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Yep, that’s what I’ve done but it would be good to have it within the theme manager UI.