From dc6db80fa72286704849ef61ee0e5ccb5841cb09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bradley Taunt Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 14:28:49 -0400 Subject: Conversion to barf for testing purposes --- _posts/2022-09-20-lf.md | 40 ---------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 40 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 _posts/2022-09-20-lf.md (limited to '_posts/2022-09-20-lf.md') diff --git a/_posts/2022-09-20-lf.md b/_posts/2022-09-20-lf.md deleted file mode 100644 index d106805..0000000 --- a/_posts/2022-09-20-lf.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ ---- -layout: post -title: "Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line" -date: 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. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf