Truetype and Mac Fonts on Ubuntu
If you are anything like me and find it hard to give your love to tinker with your font settings on ubuntu, try this:
This will surely make you love your ubuntu desktop even more.
Open up a terminal window and type the following commands:
# wget http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com/files/macfonts.tar.gz # tar zxvf macfonts.tar.gz # sudo mv macfonts /usr/share/fonts/ # sudo fc-cache -f -v
To add more choices you might also want to install the MS Truetype fonts as well.
In the same terminal window type the following commands:
$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts $sudo fc-cache -fv
Logout of your X-Session and login again and then change your settings to use one the the following cool fonts to meet your taste.
True Typefonts:
- Andale Mono
- Arial Black
- Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
- Comic Sans MS (Bold)
- Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
- Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
- Impact
- Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
- Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
- Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
- Webdings
and MAC Fonts:
- AppleGaramond
- Aquabase
- LITHOGRL
- Lucida Grande
- Lucida Mac
- lucon
- MacGrand
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