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

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
• Source Serif Pro and Source Sans Pro
• Inconsolata
  Looks nice but fonts are really small at size 9