Google Fonts in Tableau : new in tableau 2024.3

0:00Google Fonts is now supported inside of Tablet Cloud Web Altering.

0:04Yes, it's specifically Web Authoring.

0:06I think that's part of the sort of technical ability here.

0:09But nonetheless, I'm here in WebAuttering.

0:11So how does this work?

0:12Well I've actually sort of jumped ahead here, so I'll hide it and show you how to initiate this because if you right-click any title, you don't get the formatting capabilities.

0:20You can edit the title

0:21And you get the little pop-up and you can highlight this and you'll get some fonts available to you here.

0:26But this isn't actually the typical way to access fonts when you're formatting a dashboard.

0:30There's a couple of other ways.

0:31If I had it, go ahead and hit OK

0:33And I go to format here at the top, you'll see I get the options to format, and I can format the dashboard of the workbook.

0:39If I select the workbook, a formatting pane pops up over here on the right hand side.

0:43You can see the whole

0:44uh page sort of shrink to fit it in and then you have all your fonts in one place all the uh titles everything the tool tips everything is available to you here and when you go ahead and click on one of these dot downs you get the option for the font and when you go ahead and click on that

0:57You get the options for the new fonts.

0:59So the specific lists of fonts that are new in this release, I'm going to read from it.

1:03Here are Lato, Montserrat, great font, na Nottosans, Nottosands, Hebrew, Nottosands, Arabic, Nottosands.

1:11um dev Devanagari.

1:14Oh gosh, I think I met at that.

1:16I'm sorry.

1:17Open Sands, Oswald, Poppins, and Ralloway.

1:20Now the really interesting thing here is there is actually new support for Arabic, Hebrew and

1:26Devanagari oh my god, I have to go and figure out how to say this.

1:29Um Devonar De Devonag Devonagari in the cloud.

1:34I think it's Devonagari.

1:36I think I think I got over that crest.

1:38Um my dyslexia is awful.

1:39But anyway, um this is the first time these have ever been supported inside of

1:45tableau so this is also a great addition for that specific purpose so you can go ahead and choose those font formats so if you just sort of go ahead and scroll this wrist you can see that they're all here

1:54But if I choose Monstrat, this is a fan favorite of mine.

1:56I've actually used this on my website before.

1:58It's just a really, really nice font.

2:00It's a really sort of nice touch.

2:01Um, it's got a light and normal variant.

2:04The variants are actually quite interesting because they give you the same font in a slightly different sort of configuration.

2:09That's what variants do.

2:11But the the the f the the the font that I think

2:13It just works everywhere.

2:15Wherever I've used it is Robota.

2:16Robota is just a really solid, nice looking font.

2:20It's just soft on the eye.

2:21It's great for screen.

2:22And you can see here it even lifts sort of this whole dashboard

2:26uh up I just changed that uh to Roboto and it's just you can immediately see that the font is just a little bit richer.

2:32Of course you can do other things like

2:33You can set different fonts for different parts of the dashboard as well.

2:36That's also possible.

2:37And you can even go with titles, for example, if I go for um dashboard titles, which is what we're looking at here.

2:43We can go for something a little bit more glamorous.

2:46We'll go for Oswald and um I don't think that's actually worked because I don't think this is a dashboard title.

2:52I think it's something else.

2:53Overview is the name of the dashboard, but I think this

2:57What is this?

2:57What is this?

2:58Um this is not doing what I wanted to do.

3:01So what we'll go ahead and do is choose old wall here and we'll set this to be really bold and then what we'll do is we'll be just cheeky and just go really make a large

3:10Let's go make it really really large.

3:12Actually, no, that's not large enough.

3:13Let's go make it really really large.

3:1436.

3:15Here we go.

3:16Let's not make it bold and let's hit apply and hit okay.

3:19There we go.

3:20We just squash this down a bit.

3:22And there you go.

3:23Just by changing the font, you're just able to lift a dashboard and make it look like you spend a bit more time than you did

3:30uh to make the dashboard look nice and a little bit more impactful in terms of how it reads and and how it looks.

3:35So that's pretty much the change.

3:36Google fonts now available in Tableau Web Altering.

3:39I don't know why it's this specific set of fonts.

3:41I would have liked some other fonts as well

3:43But I figure they're going to go through and sort of choose some with taste and then make that available.

3:48In the future they might make all fonts available, but then give you a configuration to choose which ones are shown inside a tablet cloud.

3:54So there'll maybe be a two-part setup.

3:56Nevertheless, I would really like this inside a tablet desktop as well because it would be a really great addition to allow all the creative juices to run around and make some awesome stuff instead of what people do today.

4:06which is they put fonts into images and they use those images as headers inside of their dashboards.

4:12Thanks for watching.

4:13I'll see you in the next one.