Fonts

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Installing Fonts on Ubuntu

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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.
Consolas
DejaVu Sans Mono
Based on BitStream Vera, 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
My current favorite for gvim.
Source Code Pro
Ubuntu Mono

Serif

Sans