# Support Google Variable Fonts

**URL:** <https://forum.fontba.se/t/support-google-variable-fonts/69>\
**Category:** Greenlight\
**Created:** [June 16, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/support-google-variable-fonts/69 "2021-06-16T20:12:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Spinney](https://forum.fontba.se/user_avatar/forum.fontba.se/spinney/32/71_2.png) [@Spinney](https://forum.fontba.se/u/Spinney)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/support-google-variable-fonts/69/1 "2021-06-16T20:12:14Z")

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Variable Google fonts are supposedly supported in the preview tab (can’t search fonts in preview tab so it’s too hard to find them, let alone test them out) BUT when activating a Google font, it only activates predefined styles and not an actual variable otf.

Being able to use Illustrator’s variable menu to adjust Google fonts would be incredible!

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**Author:** ![dominik](https://forum.fontba.se/user_avatar/forum.fontba.se/dominik/32/4_2.png) [@dominik](https://forum.fontba.se/u/dominik)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/support-google-variable-fonts/69/2 "2021-06-17T07:02:17Z")

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This looks like an issue with what font files we are pulling from Google, might be a bug. We need to check on this.

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**Author:** ![JohannesWeber](https://forum.fontba.se/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JohannesWeber](https://forum.fontba.se/u/JohannesWeber)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/support-google-variable-fonts/69/3 "2023-12-11T12:18:51Z")

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Any updates on this one?

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**Author:** ![yuriy](https://forum.fontba.se/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/ea666f/32.png) [@yuriy](https://forum.fontba.se/u/yuriy)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/support-google-variable-fonts/69/4 "2023-12-11T13:22:26Z")

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Hello @JohannesWeber, thank you for your post and welcome to the forum 🙏  
Seems like Google is still hosting non-variable files only in their API, so unfortunately these is nothing we can currently do on our end to change this 😔  
Closing the topic for now.

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**Author:** ![yuriy](https://forum.fontba.se/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/ea666f/32.png) [@yuriy](https://forum.fontba.se/u/yuriy)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/support-google-variable-fonts/69/5 "2023-12-11T13:22:30Z")

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