Last updated: September 14, 2026
Without an account: Font preferences, collections, projects, and settings stay in your browser (localStorage) and are not sent to our servers. We do not require an account to use the web app.
With Google sign-in: If you choose to sign in, we receive your Google account email, name, and profile image from the sign-in flow, and we store favorites, collections, projects, settings, notes, and recently viewed fonts in our database so they sync across devices. We use this only to run the Service.
Desktop application: The desktop app stores preferences, collections, and cached font data locally on your device. Font installation and system-font scans happen on your machine. The app connects to the Google Fonts API for font metadata; that connection is between your device and Google's servers.
FontDash uses the Google Fonts API to display font information. When you browse or preview fonts, your device makes requests to Google's servers. Google's privacy policy applies to those requests. Sign-in uses Google OAuth. We use Vercel for web hosting, which may collect standard web server logs (IP addresses, request timestamps). See Vercel's privacy policy for details. Account data, when you sign in, is stored in a Postgres database hosted by our infrastructure providers.
The desktop application can scan your system's font directories to display installed fonts. This scan is performed locally on your device. Font file names and family names are read but never transmitted outside your device. You can disable system font scanning in Settings.
We use Rybbit, a privacy-first, cookieless analytics service, to understand basic usage patterns (such as page views and referrers) in aggregate. Rybbit does not use cookies, does not track you across sites, and does not collect personally identifiable information. We will never sell your data or use invasive tracking.
Browser-only data can be removed by clearing localStorage for fontdash.com. If you signed in, email info@nxyz.art and we will delete the account data we store. You can also uninstall the desktop application and remove fonts installed through it from your system font directory.
FontDash is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children.
Privacy questions: info@nxyz.art.