Your own fonts

Gyrium sets your text in the fonts of your Foundation. Until now those had to come from Google Fonts. Now a brand can upload its own font files as well, for a typeface that Google Fonts does not have, and Gyrium uses them wherever it would have used a Google font.

Many organizations have a licensed house font. Without it, every deck, document and page came out in the nearest substitute, which is the first thing a brand manager notices. With your own files uploaded, what Gyrium makes looks like the rest of your communication.

You upload the files in your Foundation. Gyrium reads the family name, the weight and the style from each file, keeps the file on its own servers in the EU, and records it with your brand. From then on, a family you uploaded is always loaded from your file, and never asked of Google. Decks, documents, web pages (published ones too), social posts, charts, tables and the brand pack all use it.

Emails are the one exception: most mail apps load no fonts from the internet, so an email shows a standard font that every mail app has in its place.

1. Open Foundation, then Look, then Typography.
2. Under Your own fonts, choose Choose font files and pick one or more files: WOFF2, WOFF, TTF or OTF, at most 3 MB each. Use one file per weight and style, or one variable file that covers several weights.
3. Each file shows a line of text in its own font, with the Family, Weight and Style Gyrium read from it. Correct them if they are wrong. Keep the family name the same for every file of one font.
4. In Use for, choose Headings, Body or Labels to use the font there straight away, or Keep the current fonts to decide later.
5. Choose Upload. The file appears in the list, shown in its own font.
6. To use an uploaded font for a role later, open that role's font picker under Typography: your own fonts come first, marked Your own font.

Only upload a font if its licence allows it to be embedded in web pages and apps. Many desktop licences do not; the foundry that sold the font can tell you.

Emails use a standard font. Removing a font does not change work that has already been published. A font collection (.ttc) is not accepted. At most 24 font files per brand.