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| author | bt <bt@btxx.org> | 2024-06-08 13:22:19 -0400 |
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| committer | bt <bt@btxx.org> | 2024-06-08 13:22:19 -0400 |
| commit | dcfb172704f3afb68a30425029ec834be2883274 (patch) | |
| tree | 02ac480745db802d7af03f3213a0c568322170e3 /build/lf | |
| parent | e146f8a64c793c337999ce316b16ebe5fe6f2dab (diff) | |
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diff --git a/build/lf/index.html b/build/lf/index.html index 8f7ff7d..1c7b55e 100644 --- a/build/lf/index.html +++ b/build/lf/index.html @@ -1,38 +1,54 @@ <!doctype html> -<html lang="en" id="top"> +<html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <link rel="icon" href="data:,"> <title>Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line</title> - <link href="https://bt.ht/atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Atom feed for blog posts" /> - <style>*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{font-family:sans-serif;margin:0 auto;max-width:650px;padding:1rem;}img{max-width:100%;}pre{overflow:auto;}table{text-align:left;width:100%;}</style> + <link href="/atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Atom feed for blog posts" /> + <link href="/rss.xml" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" title="RSS feed for blog posts" /> +<style>*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1.33;margin:0 auto;max-width:650px;padding:1rem;}img{max-width:100%;}pre{border:1px solid;overflow:auto;padding:5px;}table{text-align:left;width:100%;}.footnotes{font-size:90%;}</style> </head> <nav> - <a href="#menu">Menu ↓</a> + <a href="#menu">Menu ↓</a> </nav> <main> -<h1>Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line</h1> +<h1 id="installing-custom-fonts-on-linux-from-the-command-line">Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line</h1> + <p>2022-09-20</p> -<p>Installing custom fonts is a fairly streamlined feature on operating systems like MacOS and Windows. Linux, on the other hand, struggles to make this workflow <em>easy</em> for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get frustrated with using the default "Fonts" application managers shipped with most Linux distros.</p> -<p>But I'm here to tell you to <strong>ditch</strong> those GUI font installers. Let's install our custom fonts in the command line!</p> -<h2>Get Your Font Files</h2> -<p>You can't install custom fonts if you don't have any. For this tutorial we are going to assume that we are trying to install a typeface set named <code>LinuxFont</code>. We are going to assume that we have already downloaded and extracted a folder named <code>LinuxFont</code> into our <code>Downloads</code> directory.</p> + +<p>Installing custom fonts is a fairly streamlined feature on operating systems like MacOS and Windows. Linux, on the other hand, struggles to make this workflow <em>easy</em> for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get frustrated with using the default “Fonts” application managers shipped with most Linux distros.</p> + +<p>But I’m here to tell you to <strong>ditch</strong> those GUI font installers. Let’s install our custom fonts in the command line!</p> + +<h2 id="get-your-font-files">Get Your Font Files</h2> + +<p>You can’t install custom fonts if you don’t have any. For this tutorial we are going to assume that we are trying to install a typeface set named <code>LinuxFont</code>. We are going to assume that we have already downloaded and extracted a folder named <code>LinuxFont</code> into our <code>Downloads</code> directory.</p> + <p>Inside this hypothetical folder is a collection of <code>OTF</code> (opentype) font files. This will be important information in a moment.</p> -<h2>Terminal Time</h2> + +<h2 id="terminal-time">Terminal Time</h2> + <p>Now our goal is to simply copy this new typeface folder into our user font directory. Open Terminal and run the following from your <code>Downloads</code> directory:</p> -<pre><code>sudo cp -r LinuxFont /usr/local/share/fonts/opentype/ + +<pre><code>sudo cp -r LinuxFont /usr/local/share/fonts/opentype/ </code></pre> + <p><strong>Important</strong>: If your font files are NOT opentype format, be sure to copy your files to the proper directory (truetype for TTF, etc.)</p> + <p>Next we need to make sure we have full read and write privileges for this new folder:</p> -<pre><code>sudo chmod -R 0777 /usr/local/share/fonts/opentype/LinuxFont + +<pre><code>sudo chmod -R 0777 /usr/local/share/fonts/opentype/LinuxFont </code></pre> + <p>The last thing we need to do is reload the font cache on our system:</p> + <pre><code>sudo fc-cache -fv </code></pre> -<p>That's it! You should now have access to your custom typeface in all your applications system wide.</p> + +<p>That’s it! You should now have access to your custom typeface in all your applications system wide.</p> <footer role="contentinfo"> <h2>Menu Navigation</h2> <ul id="menu"> |