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== Nice Fonts == |
== Nice Fonts == |
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* [http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ List of monospace fonts] |
* [http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ List of monospace fonts] |
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* [http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~programming-fonts What are the best programming fonts?] |
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=== Monospace === |
=== Monospace === |
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; BitStream Vera Sans Mono |
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:Used to be my favorite monospace. |
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; Consolas |
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; [http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page DejaVu Sans Mono] |
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; [http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html Inconsolata] |
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:''Looks nice but fonts are really small at size 9'' |
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; Lucida Console |
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; Monospace |
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:My current favorite for gvim. |
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; [http://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro/ Source Code Pro] |
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; Ubuntu Mono |
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=== Serif === |
=== Serif === |
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Revision as of 09:14, 23 November 2015
Installing Fonts on Ubuntu
- References
- See here.
Fonts are kept in different locations, as defined in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. By default these are:
- /usr/share/fonts
- /usr/local/share/fonts
- /home/username/.fonts
To install a new font, copy the font to the relevant directory (or a sub-directory), and update the cache with
sudo fc-cache -f -v
Alternatively the cache is immediately refreshed after reboot.
For instance to install Arial Unicode MS (ARIALUNI.TTF, can be found on Windows XP for instance):
sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/windows
sudo cp ARIALUNI.TTF /usr/share/fonts/truetype/windows
sudo chmod 644 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/windows/*
sudo fc-cache -f -v
Nice Fonts
Monospace
- BitStream Vera Sans Mono
- Used to be my favorite monospace.
- Consolas
- DejaVu Sans Mono
- Based on BitStream Vera, but with better Unicode support.
- Inconsolata
- Looks nice but fonts are really small at size 9
- Lucida Console
- My current favorite for terminal, got from MacBuntu 10.04 theme
- Monospace
- My current favorite for gvim.
- Source Code Pro
- Ubuntu Mono