diff --git a/docker/static-server.mjs b/docker/static-server.mjs
index 505ba5850..9e44a96b1 100644
--- a/docker/static-server.mjs
+++ b/docker/static-server.mjs
@@ -15,6 +15,57 @@ const ROOT = process.env.OPENPENCIL_WEB_ROOT ?? join(import.meta.dir, 'dist')
 const PORT = Number(process.env.OPENPENCIL_WEB_PORT ?? 3100)
 const HOST = process.env.OPENPENCIL_WEB_HOST ?? '0.0.0.0'
 
+// W4C fork delta: same-origin proxy for the CORS-hostile online-font catalog
+// (https://fonts.google.com/metadata/fonts). The browser app (which is a W4C
+// fork) rewrites those requests to /__font-proxy?url=... so they stay
+// same-origin; we forward them upstream here. Mirrors vite/font-proxy.ts.
+const FONT_PROXY_PREFIX = '/__font-proxy'
+const PROXIED_FONT_HOSTS = ['fonts.google.com']
+const FONT_PROXY_USER_AGENT =
+  'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126 Safari/537.36'
+
+async function handleFontProxy(req, res, hostHeader) {
+  const target = new URL(req.url ?? '/', `http://${hostHeader}`).searchParams.get('url')
+  if (!target) {
+    res.writeHead(400)
+    res.end('missing url')
+    return
+  }
+  let targetUrl
+  try {
+    targetUrl = new URL(decodeURIComponent(target))
+  } catch {
+    res.writeHead(400)
+    res.end('invalid url')
+    return
+  }
+  if (targetUrl.protocol !== 'https:' || !PROXIED_FONT_HOSTS.includes(targetUrl.host)) {
+    res.writeHead(403)
+    res.end('proxied host denied')
+    return
+  }
+  try {
+    const upstream = await fetch(targetUrl, {
+      headers: {
+        'user-agent': FONT_PROXY_USER_AGENT,
+        accept: 'application/json, text/plain, */*'
+      },
+      redirect: 'follow'
+    })
+    const body = Buffer.from(await upstream.arrayBuffer())
+    const type = upstream.headers.get('content-type')
+    res.writeHead(upstream.status, {
+      'content-type': type ?? 'application/octet-stream',
+      'cache-control': upstream.status === 200 ? 'public, max-age=86400' : 'no-store',
+      'access-control-allow-origin': '*'
+    })
+    res.end(body)
+  } catch (err) {
+    res.writeHead(502)
+    res.end(String(err))
+  }
+}
+
 const MIME = {
   '.html': 'text/html; charset=utf-8',
   '.js': 'text/javascript; charset=utf-8',
@@ -44,6 +95,10 @@ const server = createServer(async (req, res) => {
     } catch {
       pathname = '/'
     }
+    if (pathname === FONT_PROXY_PREFIX) {
+      await handleFontProxy(req, res, req.headers.host)
+      return
+    }
     if (pathname === '/') pathname = '/index.html'
 
     // Prevent path traversal outside ROOT.
diff --git a/src/app/editor/fonts/index.ts b/src/app/editor/fonts/index.ts
index 754b05714..175ad1c5c 100644
--- a/src/app/editor/fonts/index.ts
+++ b/src/app/editor/fonts/index.ts
@@ -71,7 +71,48 @@ function configureTauriFontCache() {
   fontManager.setHostFontLoader(loadSystemFont)
 }
 
+// W4C fork delta: relay CORS-hostile online-font catalog requests through a
+// same-origin endpoint so the browser app can build the Google Fonts catalog.
+// unifont's `google` provider reads `https://fonts.google.com/metadata/fonts`,
+// which never sends `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` and sets `cross-origin-resource-policy:
+// same-site`, so it cannot be read from any non-Google origin. The browser here
+// rewrites those to `/__font-proxy?url=...` (served by a Vite dev plugin and by
+// docker/static-server.mjs), which keeps the request same-origin while the server
+// forwards it upstream. Glyph files (fonts.gstatic.com) already send CORS headers
+// and are fetched directly.
+const FONT_PROXY_PREFIX = '/__font-proxy'
+const PROXIED_FONT_HOSTS = new Set(['fonts.google.com'])
+
+// Capture the genuine native fetch once, at module load. `withFetchProxy` in
+// the core font resolver temporarily swaps `globalThis.fetch` for a wrapper
+// that routes every http(s) request through this fetcher, so calling the
+// global `fetch` here would recurse into ourselves (stack overflow). The
+// captured reference bypasses that wrapper.
+const nativeFetch = globalThis.fetch
+
+function createBrowserFontFetch(): (url: string, init?: RequestInit) => Promise<Response> {
+  return (url, init) => {
+    let host = ''
+    try {
+      host = new URL(url).host
+    } catch {
+      // Leave invalid URLs to native fetch.
+      console.warn(`[fonts] invalid URL skipped for font proxy: ${url}`)
+    }
+    if (PROXIED_FONT_HOSTS.has(host)) {
+      return nativeFetch(`${FONT_PROXY_PREFIX}?url=${encodeURIComponent(url)}`, init)
+    }
+    return nativeFetch(url, init)
+  }
+}
+
+function configureBrowserFontProxy() {
+  if (isTauri()) return
+  fontManager.setWebFontFetch(createBrowserFontFetch())
+}
+
 configureTauriFontCache()
+configureBrowserFontProxy()
 
 interface TauriFontFamily {
   family: string
diff --git a/vite.config.ts b/vite.config.ts
index 67f965485..9d37083c9 100644
--- a/vite.config.ts
+++ b/vite.config.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import packageJson from './package.json'
 import { createOpenPencilAliases } from './vite/aliases'
 import { localAutomationToken, openPencilAutomationPlugin } from './vite/automation'
 import { copyCanvasKitAssetsPlugin } from './vite/canvaskit-assets'
+import { createDevFontProxyPlugin } from './vite/font-proxy'
 import { openPencilPwaPlugin } from './vite/pwa'
 import { rawMarkdownPlugin } from './vite/raw-markdown'
 import { createDevServerOptions } from './vite/server'
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ export default defineConfig(async ({ command }) => ({
     Components({ resolvers: [IconsResolver({ prefix: 'icon' })] }),
     openPencilAutomationPlugin(command, host),
     vue(),
+    createDevFontProxyPlugin(),
     openPencilPwaPlugin()
   ],
   clearScreen: false,
diff --git a/vite/font-proxy.ts b/vite/font-proxy.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8ab591931
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vite/font-proxy.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+import type { Plugin } from 'vite'
+
+// Dev-only same-origin proxy for CORS-hostile online-font catalog endpoints.
+//
+// unifont's `google` provider reads `https://fonts.google.com/metadata/fonts` to
+// build its family catalog. That endpoint never sends `Access-Control-Allow-Origin`
+// and sets `cross-origin-resource-policy: same-site`, so a browser app served on
+// its own origin (any origin that is not Google) cannot read it directly — the
+// provider fails to initialize with "Could not initialize provider `google`".
+//
+// The browser relays such requests here instead (see `createFontProxyFetch()` in
+// src/app/editor/fonts), which keeps the request same-origin and forwards it
+// server-side to Google. This is a W4C fork delta; upstream openpencil does not
+// ship it because Tauri/goes through the Rust command that is not CORS-bound.
+
+export const FONT_PROXY_PREFIX = '/__font-proxy'
+
+// Only these hosts are CORS-hostile from the browser; everything else
+// (notably fonts.gstatic.com glyph files) already sends CORS headers and is
+// fetched directly by the browser.
+const PROXIED_HOSTS = new Set(['fonts.google.com'])
+
+export function createDevFontProxyPlugin(): Plugin {
+  return {
+    name: 'open-pencil-dev-font-proxy',
+    configureServer(server) {
+      server.middlewares.use(async (req, res, next) => {
+        let pathname: string
+        try {
+          pathname = new URL(req.url ?? '/', 'http://dev').pathname
+        } catch {
+          next()
+          return
+        }
+        if (pathname !== FONT_PROXY_PREFIX) {
+          next()
+          return
+        }
+
+        const target = new URL(req.url ?? '/', 'http://dev').searchParams.get('url')
+        if (!target) {
+          res.statusCode = 400
+          res.end('missing url')
+          return
+        }
+
+        let targetURL: URL
+        try {
+          targetURL = new URL(decodeURIComponent(target))
+        } catch {
+          res.statusCode = 400
+          res.end('invalid url')
+          return
+        }
+        if (targetURL.protocol !== 'https:' || !PROXIED_HOSTS.has(targetURL.host)) {
+          res.statusCode = 403
+          res.end('proxied host denied')
+          return
+        }
+
+        try {
+          const upstream = await fetch(targetURL, {
+            headers: {
+              'user-agent':
+                'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126 Safari/537.36',
+              accept: 'application/json, text/plain, */*',
+            },
+            redirect: 'follow',
+          })
+          const body = Buffer.from(await upstream.arrayBuffer())
+          res.statusCode = upstream.status
+          const type = upstream.headers.get('content-type')
+          if (type) res.setHeader('content-type', type)
+          res.setHeader('access-control-allow-origin', '*')
+          res.end(body)
+        } catch (e) {
+          res.statusCode = 502
+          res.end(String(e))
+        }
+      })
+    },
+  }
+}