Google Docs adds six new fonts

Arial, Courier New, Georgia, Tahoma, Times New Roman and Verdana. Up until about three days ago, these were the only fonts available to Google Doc users. Today, however, thanks to an “ever-growing list of Web fonts” and Google’s Font API, Doc users now have access to six additional fonts.

Droid Serif and Droid Sans
Android users will recognize the Droid family of Fonts. Both Droid Serif and Droid Sans feature strong vertical lines and a friendly appearance designed specifically for mobile devices.

Calibri and Cambria
According to Google, Doc users are consistently importing documents from Microsoft Word into Google Docs. Two of the most popular Word fonts, Calibri and Cambria, have been added so that users can import their Word documents to Google Docs without losing their document’s font-style.

Consolas and Corsiva
Consolas is now the second monospaced font in Google Docs - Courier New is the first. Monospaced fonts are typefaces in which every glyph is the same width. This comes in handy for computer programmers and users who need to work in plain text documents.
On the other end of the spectrum, Corsiva is Google Doc’s first italicized font style. This font is expected to win big among users who want to add elegance to fliers or other design-based documents.

Until recently, Web designers have had very limited font pallets. This is because Web browers could only portray fonts that the user - or reader - have installed to their local computer.

Today, however, modern browsers support the ability to download Web fonts automatically thus meaning fonts no longer have to be downloaded to the local computer system.

According to Google, this is only the beginning. The company is already testing it’s “next batch” of fonts, however, there has been no word on when those fonts will be available.