Font Picker for React

A simple, customizable font picker allowing users to preview, select and use Google Fonts on your website.

Simple setup
No dependencies
Automatic font download and generation of the required CSS selectors
Efficient font previews (full fonts are only downloaded on selection)

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This is the React component for the Font Picker library.

Getting started

To be able to access the API, you'll need to generate a Google Fonts API key.

1. Setup

Install the font-picker-react package using NPM:

npm install font-picker-react

2. Displaying the font picker

Add the FontPicker component to your React code:

import React, { Component } from "react";
import FontPicker from "font-picker-react";

export default class ExampleComponent extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      activeFontFamily: "Open Sans",
    };
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <FontPicker
          apiKey="YOUR_API_KEY"
          activeFontFamily={this.state.activeFontFamily}
          onChange={nextFont =>
            this.setState({
              activeFontFamily: nextFont.family,
            })
          }
        />
        <p className="apply-font">The font will be applied to this text.</p>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

3. Applying the selected font

Add the class "apply-font" to all JSX elements you want to apply the selected font to.

When the user selects a font, it will automatically be downloaded and applied to all elements with the "apply-font" class.

Props

The following props can be passed to the FontPicker component:

apiKey (required): Google API key
activeFontFamily (required): Font that should be selected in the font picker and applied to the text. Should be stored in the component state and updated using onChange
onChange (required): Function which is executed when the user changes the active font. This function should update activeFontFamily in the component state
pickerId: If you have multiple font pickers on your site, you need to give them unique IDs which must be provided as a prop and appended to the .apply-font class names. Example: If pickerId="main", use className="apply-font-main"
families: If only specific fonts shall appear in the list, specify their names in an array. Default: All font families
categories: Array of font categories to include in the list. Possible values: "sans-serif", "serif", "display", "handwriting", "monospace". Default: All categories
scripts: Array of scripts which the fonts must include and which will be downloaded on font selection. Example: ["latin", "greek", "hebrew"] (see all possible values). Default: ["latin"]
variants: Array of variants which the fonts must include and which will be downloaded on font selection. Example: ["regular", "italic", "700", "700italic"] (see all possible values). Default: ["regular"]
limit: Maximum number of fonts to display in the list (the least popular fonts will be omitted). Default: 50
sort: Sorting attribute for the font list. Possible values: "alphabet", "popularity". Default: "alphabet"

Currently, only the activeFontFamily, onChange and sort props are reactive.

Development

Requirements: Node.js, Yarn

Clone this repository: git clone REPO_URL
Install all dependencies: yarn
Generate the library bundle: yarn start
View the rendered component on localhost:3000

Suggestions and contributions are always welcome! Please discuss larger changes via issue before submitting a pull request.