Google Fonts Support | External Feature Requests

Google Fonts Support

planned

John Redhead

Ability to use Google Fonts or Typekit fonts and deliver over the web when uploaded to the cloud, to negate having to install fonts on your mobile. I hate having to tell my customer that they have to install this, or that font to see it in protopie.

December 12, 2019

Hone Lele

I recently discovered this issue as well, and would really like Font support. The worst part is I didn't even realise this could be an issue until I previewed it in a UX research testing tool which requires a link to be embedded from Protopie cloud. The Prototype should definitely have the fonts embedded since I don't have a problem using Figma or Sketch with the same research tool that uses their clouds to stream the prototype. I chose Protopie due to it's incredibly high-fidelity prototypes that makes users think and believe it's a proper app. So fonts being so basic to the digital experience, I feel protopie should make this available for all plans, because some of us don't need the enterprise plans since we are very small teams.

upvote 100x to have this feature on all plans.

Team UXUI

It's 2024. We're still waiting for the google font support aren't we? We now have a uselab but can't use the fonts as promised :(

Sam Hubbell

We spent weeks building a complex prototype with Protopie just to find out it has font issues, still in 2023. Google fonts at that. The prototype is unusable now and unfortunately, I will never recommend this product to any other design team. Protopie was a waste of time and money, and knowing what we know now, It would have been easier to code it out.

Patricia (ProtoPie Team)

marked this post as

planned

Support for Google fonts will be introduced for both Enterprise and Pro plan users late 2023.

Hone Lele

Patricia (ProtoPie Team) Hi there, slightly late to the post, but ran into the same issue as noted in this post, and I'm on a free plan. Is this available for both Enterprise and Pro? or only Enterprise as mentioned on this page?

https://www.protopie.io/learn/docs/player/managing-fonts

JP de la Torre

What about web fonts? With that we could use Google Fonts saving us all a headache.

Maxwell Crabill

It would also be nice to see compatibility extended to Fontbase and other third party managers on windows.

Kinga Krokoszynska

Yes, we experience similar problem. Especially when you test your prototype remotely with 10 different elderly users, so you cannot install fonts on Users phones. It is really pain in the ass, when fonts are the important part of your design and do not display correctly. Please, please, please improve this!

ProtoPie

Merged in a post:

Support Adobe Typekit fonts

davidicus x

Adobe fonts don't appear as font options inside ProtoPie, but would be a powerful feature for the many Adobe subscribers out here. There would also need to be an easy path to using the fonts inside remote prototypes though.

September 15, 2020

Tom Maebe

Fonts used should simply be embedded in the prototype.

John Redhead

Tom Maebe: Problem with that Tom is that you may use a font that can't legally be embedded. But ideally I do agree with you, then the pie doesn't have to connect continuously to the web to be seen.

Pol K

John Redhead: The same could be said about images, sounds or videos though. It's anyway the responsibility of the user to only share content they have the right to share.

Definitely would prefer font embedding over Google Fonts integration. I already have the fonts I need on my machine. Having to find substitutes on Google Fonts just slows down prototyping.

Simon Theis

John Redhead: In Sketch and Abstract you can upload and embed fonts into documents - you just agree to a legal statement, that you are allowed to do so - they make you take legal responsibility - I think that's a good solution