Questions related to the management, installation and removal of fonts.
Questions tagged [fonts]
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How do I install fonts?
How do I install fonts on Ubuntu Linux? I need them to be available in gimp.
myusuf3
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How to install many font files quickly and easily?
I need to install more than 100 fonts, so I was wondering if there is an easy way to do this task?
I know you can opening every single one and pressing install font, but installing more then 100 fonts this way will be very time-consuming.
In my…
Levan
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How do I change fonts and adjust their size?
I've been finding fonts on the internet and installing them on my system.
What's the easiest way to change my fonts? I would prefer an easy to use graphical way, but answers with command line recommendations are also welcome.
Jorge Castro
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How to install OTF fonts?
I know how to install TrueType fonts (by copying them to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and doing sudo fc-cache -f) but what about OTF formats?
I didn't find a suitable folder to copy them to.
Behzadsh
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How can I make fonts look like they do in Windows?
Fonts look bad and blurry in Ubuntu. When I compare a site in Ubuntu and Windows the Windows font look much more readable even after I import all of my Windows fonts. How can I change this?
Cody Harlow
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Installing Times New Roman font
How can I install the Times New Roman font? This video illustrates what I want to do, but I do not have the same options - I'm running Ubuntu 12.10.
I have also tried running the following from the terminal:
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
sudo…
Benjamin
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How to locate a font in Ubuntu?
Ubuntu desktop with 12.04 is about to crash. Installed 13.04 on a new machine, want to transfer Book Antiqua font from old machine to the new one. How do I find it on the old machine? My /usr directory is empty.
My fonts.conf file has these…
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How to delete fonts in ubuntu
How to delete fonts in ubuntu. I am a new ubuntu user and find it hard to delete fonts that I have installed.
I anticipate that the problem might be installing font that turns my Firefox browser turned my mail fonts to bold. I experience the same…
jhen
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Font viewer for font collectors?
I have a huge font collection and would like to be able to view them
in an efficient manner rather than opening a file one by one.
What would be the best font viewer aside from fontypython, which unfortunately
has a Mojibake bug on fonts with…
Gödel
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What is the closest font to Helvetica available on Ubuntu?
As I understand we don't have the font Helvetica in Ubuntu. Is there any font that is very similar to it? How can I install it?
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How to install the Monaco font?
Monaco is the default font in the iTerm terminal for Mac OS X. How can I install it on Ubuntu?
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Does Ubuntu provide extra fonts through a font package?
Is there a font-package the Ubuntu ships out that has more fonts?
Evan Carroll
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Closest alternative to Times New Roman
What is the closest alternative font of Times New Roman in Ubuntu 12.10? Is it serif or sans serif or something else ?
I have installed msttcorefonts already. Now in my Latex document I am preferring not to use Times New Roman as I found after a…
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What is the default font in Ubuntu?
What is the default font in Ubuntu?
Could someone tell me please?
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How can I install Segoe UI font?
I want to know the steps to install Segoe UI font on Ubuntu 13.04.
I copied segoe*.ttf manually to /usr/share/fonts and /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts and then used fc-cache -f -v command, but the font doesn't appear in LibreOffice or in…
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