You can also place them in the /.local/share/fonts directory on newer versions of Ubuntu per the comments below. You can also double-click on the font file (or select Open with Font Viewer in the right-click menu). Then click the Install Font button. Ever wondered which fonts are installed on your Linux system? I know a quick way to find all installed fonts in your Linux system from commandline. The fc-list command helps you to list all fonts and styles available on the system for applications using fontconfig. Using fc-list, we. Sep 13, 2019 To install ttf-mscorefonts-installer on Linux, Ubuntu open up a terminal window and issue the command sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer, Type y and then your sudo password. During the installation, you will have to use the tab button to accept the necessary license.
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Question says it all. I need them to be available in gimp.
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Many fonts are packaged for Ubuntu and available via the 'Fonts' category of the Ubuntu Software Center. If you prefer
apt-get
, search for packages starting with otf- or ttf-.Font files that are placed in the hidden
.fonts
directory of your home folder will automatically be available. You can also place them in the ~/.local/share/fonts
directory on newer versions of Ubuntu per the comments below.You can also double-click on the font file (or select Open with Font Viewer in the right-click menu). Then click the Install Font button.
How To Install Windows Fonts
If you need the fonts to be available system-wide, you'll need to copy them to
/usr/local/share/fonts
and reboot (or manually rebuild the font cache with fc-cache -f -v
).You can confirm they are installed correctly by running
fc-list | grep '<name-of-font>'
You may need to restart some programs, like OpenOffice Writer, before they actually show the new fonts (usually such programs are caching the font list when they start up).
Edit: Changed advice to manually install into
/usr/local/share/fonts
instead of /usr/share/fonts
to reflect comments and best practice.Community♦
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Copy the fonts to
/usr/local/share/fonts
or a subfolder (such as /usr/local/share/fonts/TTF
) and then run sudo fc-cache -fv
. There are some graphical programs you can install to make this easier, but I've never felt the need to try any of them. The Ubuntu wiki page on Fonts here may be of help too.GIMP will find them in there then.
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Installation of fonts from 3rd party websites is almost too easy. Download and save the file somewhere to your computer:
Then double click the font to load the font interface:
Select the Install Font button located at the bottom right of the screen.
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You don't have to install as root. Create a folder called
.fonts
in your home directory (if you don't already have one), drop the font file in there, run Gimp, job done.(You may have to enable Edit->Preferences->Views->Show hidden and backup files in Nautilus to be able to see
.fonts
and other ‘hidden’ folders in your home, if you haven't already.)bobincebobince
If you install font(s) in folder
.fonts
in your home directory, you may need to run fc-cache -rv
(notsudo
) in order to cache fonts in your home directory as well.somsak.liksomsak.lik
Application for Install and Manage fonts.
Can install Multiple Fonts.
To install fonts Click on Manage Fonts Button and select Install Fonts Option.
Font Manager can be installed from apps.ubuntu.com or and with Software Centre. If with commandline ;
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There is also an application called
fontmatrix
that can help install and manage fonts on Ubuntu. To quote the introduction on the website:Fontmatrix is a real Linux font manager, available on any platform and as well for KDE (which already had Kfontinstaller) as for Gnome. It's purpose is to recursively query the fonts (ttf, ps & otf) in the directories you give it to search, sort them quickly, (avoiding bugged or broken ones) and show them. Then, you can tag them, sub-tag, re-sort according various tags, preview... Even create a pdf Font Book...
Fontmatrix has been available to install from the Ubuntu universe repository since jaunty, and version 0.6.0+svn20100107-2ubuntu2 is currently in maverick and natty. A brief explanation about using fontmatrix is available on their website.
nhandlernhandler
Also, there are lots of fonts available as software packages. Font packages are named in the form ttf-* or otf-*. It is better to install fonts as packages instead of manually if possible. You can use tools such as Synaptic, apt-get or the Ubuntu Software Centre. The Software Centre has a dedicated fonts section.
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In addition to manually installing them inside
JanCJanC~.fonts
(see bobince's answer) and FontMatrix (what nhandler shows you), there is also another font manager aptly named Font Manager (install Ubuntu package for 10.10, or download package for 10.04 and maybe older versions) that is quite lightweight (and has a Gtk GUI).17.2k22 gold badges3636 silver badges4848 bronze badges
If you want to have fonts available exclusively to Gimp, see this answer.
In a nutshell, you copy the fonts files to Gimp's own font folder, or tell Gimp where you have the folder(s) with your fonts.
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Another question, about installing Google Fonts, was closed as a duplicate of this one, though it isn't really (being rather narrow).
A better answer than the one provided there (i.e. to go to Google Fonts and look up the font and go through their weird downloading system) is to get it directly from Github, e.g.:Roboto Mono font files
The rest of them are available at https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/master/apache, and there's also a ZIP file of them available from the main https://github.com/google/fonts#readme page.
So, if you want to script this stuff (e.g. regularly download the latest version), you can do it with a Git checkout, or by using wget or curl to pull down the exact files you want.
PS: There's another duplicate question at 'Downloading Google Fonts'. It details some other methods, like using an installer script from googlecode.com and (for more than the Google Fonts) using tasksel.
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There can be different directories on different systems. For example at my system they are:
/usr/share/fonts/
— fonts for all users~/.local/share/fonts/
— fonts for particular user
There can be any subdirectories you want. It may help you to organize your font collection.
Here is the command to get list of font files that your system uses.
Look at it and you'll get the idea of where fonts are located in your system.
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This method worked for me in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver.
- Download the file containing the desired fonts.
- Go the directory where the downloaded file is.
- Right click on the file. A black 'Box' will appear with many commands.
- Select 'OPEN WITH FONTS.' Right click on it.
- Another box'll appear. You'll see a green 'INSTALL' button at the top right corner.
- Click on that and the fonts will get installed.
You can go into the fonts directory or use a program like LibreOffice to verify the installed fonts.
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