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If you require the non-free original Microsoft fonts the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package (in contrib) can be used to obtain them.Įast Asian fonts: fonts-arphic-uming fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-sazanami-mincho fonts-sazanami-gothic fonts-unfonts-core These fonts are named Liberation and are present in most cases. The fonts-liberation package supplies fonts with the same metrics as Times, Arial and Courier. Various libre fonts are missing from Debian and need to be packaged.

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A new version of it is here: Free Font Compilation with each font (from Google Web Fonts) as. The Free Font Compilation is is also no longer updated. The Debian Fonts Review service needs to be revived. The page displays the fonts contained in some packages, but the list of packages and fonts isn't updated any more. You may also find the following useful to change the default font rendering: To view a list of server-side (available directly from X server, so font hinting and antialiasing are not available) monospaced fonts: $ xlsfonts -fn '*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-m*' To view a list of monospaced client-side fonts (available from Xft, so it is possible to apply font hinting and antialiasing): $ fc-list :spacing=mono A python based graphical utility, font-manager, is also available to preview all installed and available fonts.įontconfig is the underlying configuration tool you may find the following programs useful:įc-match -s helvetica – show an ordered list of fonts matching a certain name or patternįc-cache -fv – rebuilds cached list of fonts (in ~/.config/fontconfig, older caches may also be in ~/.fontconfig) You can verify the fonts are present by looking for them in an application (such as a word processor), or by using the command fc-list. GNOME users can simply open a Nautilus window to fonts:// and drag&drop the font files in there. Then enable bit maps font in the third screen. If you are installing bit map fonts you might need to enable this with dpkg-reconfigure: # dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config The above mentioned paths can be customized in the fontconfig configuration file at /etc/fonts/nf – you can also include subdirectories or links, which is useful if you have a directory of fonts on a separate hard drive (or partition or other location).

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Run fc-cache to update the font cache (add -v for verbose output).

These files should have the permission 644 ( -rw-r-r-), otherwise they may not be usable. ttf or otf files and placing them into /usr/local/share/fonts (system-wide), ~/.local/share/fonts (user-specific) or ~/.fonts (user-specific).

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Install a font manually by downloading the appropriate. Some non-free font downloader packages are in contrib, which you will need to add to your sources if not present.

Some fonts might have a -variable build, which are known as (VF), variable font.

As default system-wide fonts will be installed into /usr/share/fonts by the package-manager.įor most uses, you’ll want TrueType (TTF) and OpenType (OTF) fonts – these packages start with fonts. Read affiliate disclosure here.Fonts can be added system-wide to Debian by installing the appropriate package fonts are specified in the “Fonts” section.

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Want to learn more about how Adobe Illustrator works? Check out my Illustrator Explainer Series - a comprehensive collection of over 100 videos where I go over every tool, feature and function and explain what it is, how it works, and why it's useful. I found a solution after looking into it a bit which you can read about here. I’ve been getting a lot of feedback lately from some of you who claim that your fonts still aren’t populating in Inkscape despite following these steps. If any part of these instructions were unclear, please refer to the video tutorial at the top of the page or leave a comment below. Newly-added font populated in GIMP And here’s how it looks in Inkscape Once you’ve done that, your newly-added fonts should be ready to use. If you already have GIMP and/or Inkscape open, you’ll have to close out of them and reopen again in order for the new font(s) to populate in the font directory.

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