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Closes #1937

Problem

The CLI re-derives Google Fonts @import statements from components.json#font on every add run and writes them into the project's CSS file (resolveFontImportsaddFontImportPlugin). Since init always writes a font (default inter), projects that load fonts themselves — @nuxt/fonts, unplugin-fonts, self-hosted files — had no way to turn this off short of hand-deleting the font key from components.json.

There was a second, quieter problem: the import sync used replace-all semantics over any fonts.googleapis.com import in the file, so a user's own hand-written font import was deleted on the next add.

Changes

font: "none" opts out of CLI-managed fonts.

  • Accepted by init --font none, and offered as a "None" choice in both init prompts.
  • No @import is written, and no --font-heading theme var is synthesized. A disabled body font disables the heading font too, so a fontHeading left over in components.json can't keep the CLI writing imports after the project opted out — and init --font none drops fontHeading from the config it writes.
  • Switching an existing project to none also removes the imports the CLI added on previous runs (new pruneFontImports option, set by the two add-components call sites). This runs even when the installed item carries no cssVars of its own — that pass touches only the @import statements, and the CSS file is left alone entirely when nothing changes.

Import sync no longer touches imports the CLI doesn't own.

  • An existing Google Fonts import is only replaced when its URL is one the CLI writes verbatim (isManagedFontImport against the FONTS registry's own import URLs). Stale imports from a previous font/preset are still cleaned up as before; an import the user wrote — including one for a family the CLI also ships, with their own weights or axes — is left alone.

Docs: new font section in the components.json docs covering none, updated --font flag help, and a description on the published schema.json.

Tests

  • test/utils/updaters/update-css-vars-fonts.test.ts — add / replace / keep-user-imports / prune-on-disable, plus the font-only pass.
  • test/utils/resolve-fonts.test.ts — import and --font-heading resolution across the none combinations.
  • test/utils/fonts.test.tsisFontDisabled and isManagedFontImport.

The new behaviors fail on dev and pass here. Full CLI suite passes (pnpm test, 554 passed).

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  • New Features

    • CLI initialization now supports --font none for projects managing fonts independently.
    • Interactive setup includes a “None” font option.
    • CLI-managed Google Font imports are synchronized, updated, or removed as configuration changes.
    • User-managed font imports are preserved.
    • Font-related settings are cleaned up when management is disabled.
  • Documentation

    • Documented font configuration, external font management, cleanup behavior, and the none option in CLI and schema references.

The CLI re-derives Google Fonts `@import` statements from
`components.json#font` on every `add` and writes them into the project's
CSS file. Projects that load fonts themselves (`@nuxt/fonts`,
`unplugin-fonts`, self-hosted files) had no way to turn this off, since
`init` always writes a font into the config.

- `font: "none"` (and `init --font none`, plus a "None" prompt choice)
  now disables CLI font management: no `@import` is written and no
  `--font-heading` var is synthesized. Switching an existing project to
  `none` also removes the imports the CLI added on previous runs.
- The import sync no longer removes Google Fonts imports for families
  the CLI doesn't ship. It only replaces the ones it could have written
  itself, so hand-written imports survive `add`.

Closes #1937

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

The CLI adds a none font option. Font utilities detect disabled fonts and CLI-managed Google Fonts imports. CSS updates prune obsolete managed imports while preserving user-managed imports. Documentation, schema metadata, prompts, and tests are updated.

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Optional Font Management

Layer / File(s) Summary
Font disablement and import detection
packages/cli/src/utils/fonts.ts, packages/cli/test/utils/fonts.test.ts
Adds the FONT_NONE sentinel, disabled-font detection, managed Google Fonts import detection, and utility tests.
Initialization option and configuration documentation
packages/cli/src/commands/init.ts, apps/v4/content/docs/03.components-json.md, apps/v4/content/docs/06.cli.md, apps/v4/public/schema.json
Allows none in CLI validation and prompts. Documents the configuration option and schema behavior.
CSS font synchronization and pruning
packages/cli/src/utils/updaters/update-css-vars.ts, packages/cli/src/utils/add-components.ts, packages/cli/test/utils/updaters/update-css-vars-fonts.test.ts, packages/cli/test/utils/resolve-fonts.test.ts
Adds pruning options, removes unmatched CLI-managed imports, preserves user-managed imports, skips disabled font variables, and tests synchronization behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fa20c

The font opt-out change can still delete an exact user-authored Google Fonts import, allow explicit heading-font settings to continue generating managed fonts, or leave prior imports behind in some projects. These bounded correctness issues affect the feature’s promised behavior and should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Developer
  participant init
  participant addComponents
  participant updateCssVars
  participant CSS
  Developer->>init: Select or pass --font none
  init->>addComponents: Store disabled font configuration
  addComponents->>updateCssVars: Enable font import pruning
  updateCssVars->>CSS: Remove unmatched CLI-managed imports
  updateCssVars->>CSS: Preserve user-managed imports
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packages/cli/src/utils/add-components.ts (1)

411-417: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make font: "none" disable explicit heading-font management.

When config.font is "none" and config.fontHeading is "geist", Lines 411-417 still add the Geist import. Lines 442-450 also synthesize --font-heading.

Return no font imports and no heading variable when the body font is disabled. This case can occur when an existing project keeps fontHeading while init --font none updates only font. As per PR objectives, font: "none" must suppress CLI-managed imports and synthesized heading variables.

Also applies to: 442-450

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In `@packages/cli/src/utils/add-components.ts` around lines 411 - 417, Update the
font handling around config.font and the heading-variable generation around
config.fontHeading so config.font === "none" skips all CLI-managed font imports
and does not synthesize --font-heading, even when fontHeading is set to another
value such as "geist".
packages/cli/src/utils/updaters/update-css-vars.ts (1)

33-34: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Run font synchronization when no component CSS variables exist.

Font import synchronization and pruning are independent of registry CSS variables. The current guards prevent font: "none" from removing managed imports when the added component has no cssVars.

  • packages/cli/src/utils/updaters/update-css-vars.ts#L33-L34: only return when both CSS-variable updates and font-import synchronization are unnecessary.
  • packages/cli/src/utils/add-components.ts#L227-L246: invoke updateCssVars for font synchronization even when tree.cssVars is absent.

As per PR objectives, switching an existing project to font: "none" must remove CLI-managed imports.

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In `@packages/cli/src/utils/updaters/update-css-vars.ts` around lines 33 - 34,
Allow updateCssVars to run when font-import synchronization is needed even if
cssVars is empty, returning only when both CSS-variable updates and font
synchronization are unnecessary. In
packages/cli/src/utils/updaters/update-css-vars.ts lines 33-34, adjust the guard
accordingly; in packages/cli/src/utils/add-components.ts lines 227-246, invoke
updateCssVars for font synchronization when tree.cssVars is absent so font:
"none" removes CLI-managed imports.
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Inline comments:
In `@packages/cli/src/utils/fonts.ts`:
- Around line 58-65: The isManagedFontImport function currently infers CLI
ownership from font family names, causing user-managed Inter or Geist imports to
be removed. Update the font import generation and detection flow to attach and
recognize durable ownership metadata on imports written by the CLI, and make
isManagedFontImport rely on that metadata rather than FONTS family membership;
preserve existing user-managed Google Fonts imports.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@packages/cli/src/utils/add-components.ts`:
- Around line 411-417: Update the font handling around config.font and the
heading-variable generation around config.fontHeading so config.font === "none"
skips all CLI-managed font imports and does not synthesize --font-heading, even
when fontHeading is set to another value such as "geist".

In `@packages/cli/src/utils/updaters/update-css-vars.ts`:
- Around line 33-34: Allow updateCssVars to run when font-import synchronization
is needed even if cssVars is empty, returning only when both CSS-variable
updates and font synchronization are unnecessary. In
packages/cli/src/utils/updaters/update-css-vars.ts lines 33-34, adjust the guard
accordingly; in packages/cli/src/utils/add-components.ts lines 227-246, invoke
updateCssVars for font synchronization when tree.cssVars is absent so font:
"none" removes CLI-managed imports.
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Comment thread packages/cli/src/utils/fonts.ts Outdated
- Identify CLI-written font imports by their exact URL rather than by
  family, so a user's own import of a family the CLI also ships (their
  own weights or axes) is never removed.
- `font: "none"` now disables the heading font too, instead of leaving a
  stale `fontHeading` in `components.json` writing imports and
  `--font-heading` after the project opted out. `init --font none` drops
  `fontHeading` from the config it writes.
- Sync font imports even when the installed item carries no `cssVars`,
  which is when the opt-out previously failed to clean up. That pass
  touches only the `@import` statements, and the CSS file is left alone
  when nothing changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Addressed all three findings in fa20c8f.

font: "none" with a leftover fontHeading — valid, and it was a deliberate-but-wrong call on my side (I'd treated body and heading independently). A disabled body font now disables the heading font too, for both the imports and the synthesized --font-heading. init --font none also drops fontHeading from the config it writes, so the stale value doesn't survive the opt-out in the first place. fontHeading: "none" still disables just the heading.

Font sync skipped when the item has no cssVars — valid, and it defeated the cleanup path for exactly the projects this PR targets. updateCssVars now returns early only when there is neither a CSS-variable update nor a font sync to do, and the workspace path no longer gates on tree.cssVars. When there are no CSS variables to write, it runs a font-only pass (transformFontImports) instead of the full plugin pipeline — the other plugins would otherwise edit a file they were never asked to touch — and the file is not written at all when the output is unchanged.

Import ownership — replied inline. Matching moved from family to the exact URLs the CLI writes, which preserves user imports of the same family without putting marker comments in user CSS.

New coverage in test/utils/resolve-fonts.test.ts for the none combinations, plus the font-only pass and user-import cases in the updater tests. Full suite: 554 passed.

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Closing in favour of the upstream approach.

Rather than adding an opt-out for CLI-managed Google Fonts imports, we're removing the mechanism: fonts move to @fontsource-variable/* packages delivered as registry:font items, matching shadcn upstream. The font / fontHeading fields and the --font flag come out of components.json and init entirely, fonts are written once at init/apply rather than re-derived on every add, and no font URL is ever written into a user's CSS.

That fixes #1937 at the root — there is nothing left to opt out of — and closes the gap with upstream, where fonts have never been a standing config field. Follow-up PR to come.

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