Easiest way to add a font so Chrome will recognize it on a Nexus 10?

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I want Chrome for Android to recognize the Verdana font on a Nexus 10. That's it. Currently, it only seems to recognize Arial, Open Sans, Times New Roman, and a couple of fixed width fonts. All of these fonts are just terrible, and I'm left baffled by why Google would make such a tiny number of fonts available.

Is there a solution to this that does not involve rooting? I've spent a few hours in the app store and looking it up online and I haven't been able to find anything.

(Ideally, I'd like to be able to also change the default fonts for Chrome for Android; but that's likely more impossible and is far less important to me.)

Have you seen our fonts tag-wiki yet, Trixie? You might wish to follow it up to How can I install custom fonts on Android? — Izzy, Jul 17 '15 at 15:50

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Verdana is a proprietary font. Although Microsoft once released it as a part of Core fonts for the Web, they didn't allow to repackage it with other products, and then shut the whole project down.

Android has its own Roboto font.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:40

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answered Jul 09 '15 at 00:50

Mikhail Naganov

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This doesn't answer either of my questions, which remain valid because it is legal to download and use Verdana as an end-user. Roboto is not a substitute because "Verdana" will default to Arial (or something that looks very much like Arial). – Trixie Wolf Jul 09 '15 at 02:45
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Yeah, sorry for that. I wasn't sure, if you are doing that just for yourself, or as a publicly available thing. What I would do in this case, is taking Verdana as a web font, changing the default user agent stylesheet for Chromium and rebuilding it myself. – Mikhail Naganov Jul 09 '15 at 17:12

Easiest way to add a font so Chrome will recognize it on a Nexus 10?

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