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This page walks through every screen between an open browser tab and the console’s Playground: signing in, signing up, the emailed codes, password reset, email verification, and choosing an organization. Read it when you sign in for the first time, or when a sign-in screen shows a message you do not recognize. The console signs you in as a person. Your code never signs in: it sends an API key, which you create in the console once you are in. See API keys.

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Sign in

Open console.opentype.dev. If you are not signed in, you land on Sign in.
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Pick a method

Choose Continue with Google or Continue with GitHub, or use the email form under or with email.
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With a password

Enter Email and Password, then choose Sign in. The button reads Signing in… while it works.
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Or with a code

Choose Email me a code instead, enter your Email, and choose Email me a sign-in code. On Check your email, enter the six-digit Code and choose Sign in. The code works once, for ten minutes. Use another email starts over; Use a password instead takes you back to the password form.
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Land in the console

You arrive on the Playground. If your account belongs to more than one organization, you choose one first; see Choose an organization.
Check your email reads If you@example.com has an account, a six-digit code is on its way. The wording is the same whether or not the address has an account, so the screen never tells anyone which addresses are registered. With Google or GitHub, the provider’s own page opens, you approve there, and the provider sends you back to the console. The console checks that the round trip started in the same browser before it signs you in.

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Create an account

Sign-up is open to anyone. From Sign in, choose Create an account next to New here? Choose Create account. You can also use Continue with Google or Continue with GitHub on the same screen instead of a password. The note under the form says what you get: You get your own organization and $5 of free credit once your email is verified. One grant per email address. Details are in Create an account. Already have one? Sign in takes you back.

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Verify your email

When your email address still needs verifying, sign-in stops at Verify your email: We sent a six-digit code to you@example.com. Enter it to finish signing in.
  1. Enter the Code and choose Verify and continue.
  2. No email? Choose Send a new code. The screen confirms with A new code is on its way.
  3. Wrong address? Choose Use another email to start over.
Verification is what releases the $5 sign-up credit, and it is required to create an organization.

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Reset a password

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Ask for a link

On Sign in, choose Forgot password?. On Reset your password, enter your Email and choose Email me a link. The answer is the same whether or not the address has an account: If this address has an account, a reset link is on its way. It expires in ten minutes.
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Choose a new password

Open the link from the email. On Choose a new password, enter the New password (at least 10 characters, checked against known breaches) and choose Set password. The link works once. If it has expired, choose Send a new link.
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Sign in again

You return to Sign in with Password changed: Sign in with your new password. Sessions you already had on other browsers stay signed in until they expire.

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Choose an organization

If your account belongs to more than one organization, sign-in stops at Choose an organization. Each organization is listed with its name and its id. Choose one to open the console in it. Everything you then see, create or spend belongs to that organization: its balance, its keys, its usage. To work in another organization, choose Sign out in the top bar, sign in again, and pick the other one. Sign in as someone else on this screen starts over with a different account.

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Your account has no organization yet

A new account normally gets its organization, and its credit, the moment sign-up finishes. If that step did not complete, the console shows this above every page:
Your account has no organization yet Create one to run reads and manage keys. It comes with $5 of credit if your email is verified and has not received it before.
Type an Organization name (optional) and choose Create organization. When it works, the Playground opens with Welcome. $5.00 of credit is on your account. If the address already received its credit, the organization is created without it. If it does not work, the Playground shows The organization was not created: . The usual code is email_not_verified: sign out, sign in again, and enter the code emailed to you on Verify your email. Until you have an organization, API calls that need one answer 403 no_active_organization. See no_active_organization.

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Staying signed in, and signing out

The console keeps you signed in and renews your session in the background, so you are not asked to sign in again while you work. A temporary outage of the API does not end your session: you may land on Sign in with a message about the API, and your session works again once the API answers. If the renewal is refused, you land on Sign in with Your session expired. Sign out in the top bar ends your session on this browser and returns you to Sign in with Signed out.

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Messages on the sign-in screen

When sign-in sends you back, a box at the top of Sign in says why. Some also show a request reference; keep it with your notes on the problem. A form that refuses what you typed, such as a wrong password or code, shows the reason and its code above the form and keeps what you typed, except the password.