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300+ Easily Installed Free Fonts for Ubuntu
ubuntu.wordpress.com — Ubuntu offers a lot of fonts, in addition to the defaults installed, and the Microsoft msttcorefonts package, in its repositories. All these fonts mentioned here are provided as packages, which can easily installed using command line tools like apt-get or using Synaptic.
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- donwilson2, on 10/11/2007, -55/+6Cool, now how about for a real OS.
- monsterenergy, on 10/11/2007, -6/+14most of the fonts are crap anywy...
- tnoy, on 10/11/2007, -11/+8I have a feeling a lot of the computer illiterate people I know will ask, "But, where do I type that in?."
This just shows how little some poeple in the Linux community understand how a significant portion of Windows users think about their computers. If you want to be taken seriously about being "easy" with the masses, then never mention the command line.
It'd be just as simple using Synaptic, why leave that out? - stinkipete, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5@ tnoy
It's a ubuntu blog. It's going to be linux based, and aimed at linux users.
There's no point in telling people who don't have linux how to install the fonts is there? - bruenig, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8The command line is one of if not the best feature of GNU Linux. That should be something that is played up not played down.
- tnoy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Most of the comments and diggs about Linux are about how easy it is, especially for people like "my mom" or "my grandparents." This is particularly true for Ubuntu.
The fact that the Linux community tends to gear things twards those whom are already familiar with Linux, know someone who is familiar with it, or the tech savvy in general is going to prevent them from having the saturation in the desktop market it could have. I know a few poeple that do not want to use Linux simply because they "don't want to deal with the command line." I'll try to explain that it is largely unneeded, but they just point to the slew of how-to's (most of which were found on sites like this) that all deal with the command line. If you want to get people to switch to Linux, then start tailoring to the non-Linux user. In reality, if you're "familiar with Linux" you would've already known how to do all this.
Even though I hate Apple, they're the first company I've seen to actually do it right.
A negative comment about Apple and Linux, nowhere to go but (dugg) down!
- pinniger, on 10/11/2007, -16/+8I like Ubuntu too, but is it really necessary to post every article ever written about it on digg?
- RamboJesus, on 10/11/2007, -5/+14It's almost as if people love Ubuntu and want to Support everything that has anything to do with it.
- reha, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9here is best guide to install different fonts in ubuntu http://www.debianadmin.com/install-microsoft-corewindows-truetypeubuntu-titlemacintosh-fonts-in-ubuntu.html
- kalpeshsharma, on 10/11/2007, -18/+6ZOMG!!!! 300!!!! Ubuntoooo1!!!!
DUGG!!! - kernco, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5It's funny that I come to digg.com and see this story at the top of the front page right after reading this: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/119
Although as monsterenergy2 said, there is no claim made about the quality of these fonts. - h3ndrix, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20Tonight we type in hell!
- OpticalLiam, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9This is madness!
Madness? THIS IS SERIF! - ollj, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Our Tabs will Backspace the Pg-Down!
- OpticalLiam, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9This is madness!
- Spr0k3t, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3I really enjoy *buntu... however... fonts? I mean, come on. Buried as lame.
- willistg, on 10/11/2007, -14/+6ZOMG UBUNTU SPAMMERS STRIKE AGAIN
I just do a $ sudo apt-get install ttf-*- Tyr7BE, on 10/11/2007, -14/+4Buried for use of ZOMG :(
- willistg, on 10/11/2007, -6/+12buried cuz I don't give a ***** why you buried it. :)
- billyfoxtrot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5@willistg
"I just do a $ sudo apt-get install ttf-*"
That will work, but it does install a bunch of fonts in foreign languages that you might not need. - willistg, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I know that, which is why I didn't write a blog about it and post it to digg.
- nybble41, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0"I just do a $ sudo apt-get install ttf-*"
The parameter to apt-get is a regular expression, unlike dpkg where the parameter is a shell glob pattern. Consequently your pattern matches anything containing (but not necessarily starting with) "ttf", which is probably not what you intended. You'd get better results with "apt-get install ^ttf-.*".
- DarkJesus, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1Wouldn't installing 300 fonts be a bad thing?
- skjalff, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3ok, so who gives a *****?
- joe361, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Great more fonts, where can I get more?
- digmc, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3@Darkjesus: Wouldn't installing 300 fonts be a bad thing?
Absolutely it is. Unless you're running a font server, you slow down the loading of Xfree86. (and I personally haven't run one of those in years).
G++ - davidkeithjones, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6You know your're a Linux geek when you get "up" for fonts.
- bethlagarrison, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Wait.. does Linux not have simple support for Opentype, Postscript, etc?
- Breepee, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Afaik it does, for a long time now. The Ubuntu-font itself is only available in .otf, so it must be.
- cobr@, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1all i have to say univers, avante garde, eurostile, caslon 540 and 224, helvetica, fruitiger, futura, and maybe baskerville
- pooptaster, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I can't believe they didn't even mention the artwiz fonts.
- tazamore, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4The msttcorefonts package is essential for web designers using Ubuntu, and makes other web sites look better in Ubuntu, however ttf font rendering can look a little choppy. Tweaking font rendering settings in System > Preferences > Font usually cleans it up.
- ChileanGoD, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1ahem... this is madness!...
*duck and hide* - daradib, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Linux Libertine
Part of the Universe repository in the package linux-libertine. - Phlosten, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Extra fonts are great. Now to find out if those packages are in Debian. Ubuntu is great to start, but Debian is where the power is at!
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