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== Administration == |
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== Installing Fonts on Ubuntu == |
=== Installing Fonts on Ubuntu === |
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* References |
* References |
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** See [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts here]. |
** See [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts here]. |
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sudo fc-cache -f -v |
sudo fc-cache -f -v |
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</source> |
</source> |
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=== Querying font === |
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'''fc-match''' matches available fonts: |
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<source lang=bash> |
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fc-match calibri |
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</source> |
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calibri.ttf: "Calibri" "Regular" |
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== Nice Fonts == |
== Nice Fonts == |
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Revision as of 17:40, 24 May 2016
Administration
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
Querying font
fc-match matches available fonts:
fc-match calibri
calibri.ttf: "Calibri" "Regular"
Nice Fonts
Monospace
- Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
- My previous favorite
- Consolas
- DejaVu Sans Mono
- Based on BitStream Vera (almost identical), 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
- Same as Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
- Source Code Pro
- Ubuntu Mono