# Can I use a Google font in an offline sketch without downloading it locally?

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**Created:** [November 17, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-i-use-a-google-font-in-an-offline-sketch-without-downloading-it-locally/33583 "2021-11-17T21:36:54Z")\
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Hi there!

I need to distribute a sketch to my students as a one-file app (html file including everything). As long as I use only 2D, it works great. But now I want to have a rotating cube with labels attached to some corners (nothing fancy, just ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’). The docs say that for text in 3D I need to load a font first. Is it possible to load a font directly from Google? I know I can download the font locally, but I don’t want to have to distribute an archive with several files. If I link to the font in the `<head>` of the .html file, how can I access it in my sketch?

Thanks