Installing TrueType fonts on Ubuntu
Tuesday 2 January 2007 - Filed under Default
I’m working on a little website project and wanted to create a logo for the site with one of many free fonts I’ve downloaded. I’m using The Gimp and I have the .ttf font files unpacked on my desktop. The question for me was, how do I get these into the system so The Gimp and other apps will see them?
Turns out it was fairly easy to do. At the advice of some websites I read, I learned that /usr/share/fonts/truetype is where many truetype fonts are stored and that by creating a custom folder as root, I then had a place where I could just move the fonts. One site I read mentioned creating a hints file but for my purposes, it turned out not to be necessary. Having them there is enough.
Once I had moved the fonts into the custom folder, I refreshed the fonts in The Gimp and my fonts were available! I could also select any of these fonts to use on my Desktop or Application windows. This process has the potential(for a large number of fonts) to be even simpler than the one by which you could install fonts in Windows.
The most popular question out there was how to get the Microsoft core fonts into Ubuntu and that’s as simple as running “sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts” in your terminal. Unfortunately, Tahoma’s not included in that package so you’ll need to google for how to do that.
2007-01-02 » David Sterry