Fonts

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

• List of monospace fonts
• What are the best programming 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

Serif

• Source Serif Pro

Sans

• Source Sans Pro