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diff --git a/posts/lf.md b/posts/lf.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4451b91 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/lf.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +# Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line + +2022-09-20 + +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 *easy* for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get frustrated with using the default "Fonts" application managers shipped with most Linux distros. + +But I'm here to tell you to **ditch** those GUI font installers. Let's install our custom fonts in the command line! + +## Get Your Font Files + +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 `LinuxFont`. We are going to assume that we have already downloaded and extracted a folder named `LinuxFont` into our `Downloads` directory. + +Inside this hypothetical folder is a collection of `OTF` (opentype) font files. This will be important information in a moment. + +## Terminal Time + +Now our goal is to simply copy this new typeface folder into our user font directory. Open Terminal and run the following from your `Downloads` directory: + + + sudo cp -r LinuxFont /usr/local/share/fonts/opentype/ + + +**Important**: If your font files are NOT opentype format, be sure to copy your files to the proper directory (truetype for TTF, etc.) + +Next we need to make sure we have full read and write privileges for this new folder: + + + sudo chmod -R 0777 /usr/local/share/fonts/opentype/LinuxFont + + +The last thing we need to do is reload the font cache on our system: + + + sudo fc-cache -fv + + +That's it! You should now have access to your custom typeface in all your applications system wide. |