Fonts

When a text layer uses a family, Kimo looks for it in this order and uses the first match:

1. The file's own fonts: font files in the file's assets/ folder.
2. Installed fonts on this computer, plus Extra font folders (desktop).
3. The offline font pack, if you downloaded it.
4. The font cache: every font Kimo fetched before.
5. Google Fonts, fetched on first use (unless you turned that off).

Inter and JetBrains Mono ship with Kimo and always work. A font no source has renders in Inter until you replace or install it; the file keeps the original name.

The first time a file uses a Google font you don't have, Kimo fetches it and also stores it in the file's assets/ folder, named by its content hash (like images). The next save lists it in the file's asset manifest. From then on the file renders the same everywhere with no network: on another computer, offline, in CI, with the kimo CLI and in headless renders and exports.

• Storing a font never changes the open document: there is nothing to undo, and opening a file doesn't mark it as changed. ⌘Z still undoes your own last change.
• In the browser, Download carries the fonts in the .kimoz package when the design has images; a plain .kimo (no images) leaves them out.
• Commit the assets/ folder with the file. File › Clean up assets… and kimo gc never remove a font a text layer still uses.
• Font files over 20 MB are not stored (they stay in the font cache), and neither are Inter and JetBrains Mono, which ship with Kimo.
• In the browser Kimo stores the compact WOFF2 version Google serves to browsers; the desktop app stores the full TTF.

Settings › Fonts & privacy › Offline font pack downloads a small set of popular Google families once, so they work with no network even in files that never used them:

Roboto, Open Sans, Lato, Montserrat, Poppins, Raleway, Nunito, Work Sans, DM Sans, IBM Plex Sans, Space Grotesk, Fira Sans, Playfair Display, Lora, Source Serif 4 and Roboto Mono, regular to bold (400–700, upright, Latin).

It is about 8 MB in the desktop app (kept in the app's data folder, in font-pack) and about 2 MB in the browser (kept in the site's storage). Download shows the progress and can be cancelled; downloading again skips what's already there. Remove deletes the pack only; the font cache is separate (Font cache › Clear).

The pack downloads from Google, so it is off while No third-party fetch is on. A pack you already downloaded keeps working.

Settings › Fonts & privacy › No third-party fetch stops every request to Google: no font is fetched and the offline font pack can't be downloaded. Fonts already in the file, installed, in the pack or in the cache still work. See Privacy.

When a file then uses fonts Kimo can't find, the Missing fonts dialog opens with a Google Fonts are blocked notice and Open settings. You can replace the fonts, install them, or keep them for now (they render in Inter).