Google Docs, the ubiquitous and free word processing tool, uses a sans serif font called Arial past default. It'due south classic and straightforwardly simple. Similar the white bread of fonts, it's hard working and versatile, simply pretty dang basic.

Concluding week, Google added 60 new fonts to its catalog of free licensed font families for you to choose from in Docs and Slides with a tweet that basically said, "these fonts are here now!" In that location wasn't much particular as to why Google added the fonts, only for anyone who grew tired of the xxx or and so default font options bachelor previously, the new offerings will make it much easier to customize Google Docs and Slides.

Here are five of the most exciting new typefaces, showcasing a range of styles, from an updated dearest-to-hate font to a approved typeface mid-century modernist Massimo Vignelli himself favored. Your next shared Doc is about to get a lot spicier.

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Comic Neue

Google Fonts already has Comic Sans, one of the most widely mocked fonts on the Internet. (Its own designer calls it the "the Justin Bieber of fonts.") Comic Neue is its more sophisticated sibling. The "squashed, wonky, and weird glyphs of Comic Sans have been beaten into shape," Google writes, while maintaining the fun that make many beloved Comic Sans (and love to detest information technology). Comic Neue's child-like wait could work nicely for younger audiences, but information technology could take practical benefits, too.  Comic Sans is considered a more legible font for dyslexic readers.

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JetBrains Mono

This typeface looks similar code, and that makes sense: It takes inspiration from it. The rounded rectangular shapes of JetBrains Mono is "fabricated for the specific needs of developers," according to its designers Philipp Nurullin and Konstantin Bulenkov. It's a monospace font, so each letter or character takes up the same corporeality of space. But you don't need to utilise it for coding—employ it to give a boxy, geometric feel to an otherwise drab Google Doc or presentation.

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Bodoni Moda

Bodoni Moda is a long overdue improver to Google Docs and Slides. Bodoni, a serif font first designed by Giambattista Bodoni in the late 18th century, is an all-time archetype font. It's a serif typeface, with sharp edges and straight lines that give it modern appeal. It has been used everywhere: One of its most famous proponents was the iconic mid-century modern designer Massimo Vignelli, who famously used only a handful of typefaces throughout his career; he considered Bodoni one of his half-dozen preferred typefaces. Garamond, a typeface similar to Bodoni, already exists in Google Docs. But Bodoni Moda'south contrasting sparse and thick strokes arrive stand up on its own, and information technology'due south high time the font family unit gets some attention, as well.

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Goldman

You've probably seen a typeface similar to Goldman, with its angled terminals and squared counters (the negative space in letters), used for the front covers of sci-fi novels. Designer Jaikishan Patel expands its utilize case hither, designing it for applications in science fiction, sports, drama, and thriller posters. Now y'all tin can bring a cinematic element to your Docs.

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Museu Moderno

There are 26 letters in any English alphabet, but in the sans serif Museo Moderno alphabet, i letter is the star: the lowercase Westward. Information technology looks like someone aptitude a piece of steel pipe to get those wonky curves. Passenger vehicle-Type first designed the typeface for the Museum of Modernistic Fine art of Buenos Aires, only information technology'southward easy to come across the contemporary geometric typeface on everything from direct-to-consumer dazzler brands to specialty consumer appurtenances.