{"id":67,"date":"2007-01-02T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.168.29.5\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2007-01-02T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T00:04:00","slug":"installing-truetype-fonts-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/installing-truetype-fonts-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing TrueType fonts on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a <a href=\"http:\/\/ajaxasl.com\">little website<\/a> project and wanted to create a logo for the site with one of many free fonts I&#8217;ve downloaded. I&#8217;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?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular question out there was how to get the Microsoft core fonts into Ubuntu and that&#8217;s as simple as running &#8220;sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts&#8221; in your terminal. Unfortunately, Tahoma&#8217;s not included in that package so you&#8217;ll need to google for how to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a little website project and wanted to create a logo for the site with one of many free fonts I&#8217;ve downloaded. I&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}