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== Nice Fonts == |
== Nice Fonts == |
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* [http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ List of monospace fonts] |
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=== Monospace === |
=== Monospace === |
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* BitStream Vera Sans Mono<br/>''Used to be my favorite monospace'' |
* BitStream Vera Sans Mono<br/>''Used to be my favorite monospace'' |
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* Lucida Console<br/>''My new favorite, got from MacBuntu 10.04 theme'' |
* Lucida Console<br/>''My new favorite, got from MacBuntu 10.04 theme'' |
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* [http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.html Source Code Pro] |
* [http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.html Source Code Pro] |
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* [http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html Inconsolata]<br/>''Looks nice but fonts are really small at size 9'' |
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Revision as of 12:35, 26 September 2012
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 - DejaVu — Based on BitStream Vera, but with better Unicode support.
- Lucida Console
My new favorite, got from MacBuntu 10.04 theme - Source Code Pro
- Inconsolata
Looks nice but fonts are really small at size 9