Fonts

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Installing Fonts on Ubuntu

  • References

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

Serif

Sans

Source Sans Pro