Full list of font families provided with Flutter? - flutter

Question

In Flutter we can use TextStyle to provide a desired fontFamily property for the text.
While some fontFamily names are obvious and do work (like 'Arial', 'Courier', 'Times' and so on), where's the full list of available options?
The docs (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/painting/TextStyle/fontFamily.html) don't help.

Answer 1

I do not think such a list is provided by the Flutter team. The fonts you mention are probably system default fonts. Flutter handles the use of custom fonts with a 'Custom Font Fallback'. Listed below is a tool snippet of how this goes to work:
Snippet
In the following example, any glyphs not present in the font Raleway will be attempted to be resolved with Noto Sans CJK SC, and then with Noto Color Emoji:
const TextStyle(
fontFamily: 'RaleWay',
fontFamilyFallback: <String>[
'Noto Sans CJK SC',
'Noto Color Emoji',
],
)
If all custom fallback font families are exhausted and no match was found
or no custom fallback was provided, the platform font fallback will be used.
Since you do not provide any FallBack fonts, Flutter automatically uses the the fonts default to your system of choice.
I hope this you understand what happens now! Please look at the documentation on how to add custom fonts:
Flutter font documentation

Answer 2

You don´t need to worry about the default fonts.
You can download a font that you like from here https://fonts.google.com/
Then add it to your assets folder, and update your pubspec.yaml
flutter:
# The following line ensures that the Material Icons font is
# included with your application, so that you can use the icons in
# the material Icons class.
uses-material-design: true
fonts:
- family: yourFont
fonts:
- asset: assets/fonts/yourFont.ttf
- family: otherFont
fonts:
- asset: assets/fonts/otherFont.ttf
After that, you can use it like this:
Text('Some text',
style: TextStyle(
color: Colors.blue,
fontFamily: 'yourFont',
fontSize: 22.0,
),
),

Answer 3

I recently encountered the same problem with fonts and Flutters incomplete documentation of font list.
A much easier solution for me was to import Google's font library:
//Import the font package
import 'package:google_fonts/google_fonts.dart';
//Use the Font package instead of TextStyle with your custom tweeks
Text('Sign Up',
style: GoogleFonts.poppins(
color: const Color.fromARGB(255, 59, 59, 61),
fontSize: 64,
fontWeight: FontWeight.w900,
),
),
And the list of fonts offered by this library is HUGE.
check them out with complete examples from here:
https://fonts.google.com/