- How can I determine which fonts are installed from the command line, and what is the easiest way to install more?
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- Find font file from font name on linux
- Find font file from font name on Linux
- How to Install Fonts in Ubuntu
- How to get the real name of font?
- How to view a TTF font file?
- Locating fonts on Linux (in C++)
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- Find font file from font name on Linux
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How can I determine which fonts are installed from the command line, and what is the easiest way to install more?
There are many questions and answers regarding fonts on Ubuntu, but not so many dealing with Ubuntu for Embedded Linux, such as Beaglebone Black. I have not been able to locate any .ttf files in standard locations on my system, and I think that given the resource constraints these have been omitted. Using the command line, how can I (1) find out which fonts are installed, and (2) install more fonts. FYI: I am looking for a simple sans-serif ttf that I can use to display text on an 8×8 LED matrix.
/usr/share/fonts isn’t there. fc-list command is not found. so far I just downloaded a free arial font from www.dafont.com and used secure copy to transfer it to my beaglebone. i will create a /usr/share/fonts/ directory manually for future use. scp /Users/me/Downloads/pixel_arial_11/PIXEARG_.TTF ubuntu@192.168.7.2:/home/ubuntu/
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The best and simplest way is to use console command (this command should be available for all ubuntu-based distributions) :
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/lato/Lato-Medium.ttf: Lato,Lato Medium:style=Medium,Regular /usr/share/fonts/truetype/tlwg/TlwgTypo-Bold.ttf: Tlwg Typo:style=Bold /usr/share/fonts/truetype/lato/Lato-SemiboldItalic.ttf: Lato,Lato Semibold:style=Semibold Italic,Italic /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf: DejaVu Serif:style=Bold /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoSansThai-Regular.ttf: Noto Sans Thai:style=Regular . fc-list - list available fonts To check all available options use MAN (manual): man fc-list
Find font file from font name on linux
If urxvt is built with Xft support (check to be sure), you might want to give it font names prefixed by Other options affecting font matching and rendering may be specified in xft font name: (search for for further details) No server upload necessary Screenshot Solution 2: (part of GNOME of course) can do this (this is the default association for fonts under GNOME); indeed, it comes with a button to install the font, which obviously wouldn’t make sense if the font needed to be installed already.
Find font file from font name on Linux
Also give a try to fc-scan , fc-match
where FontName is the exact font name found with
fc-list | grep -i approximate-or-partial-font-name
How to find out which font can display these characters?, Yes, after install python3-fonttools , your script list all fonts which contain this character. I can pick up each font and test. thanks. –
How to Install Fonts in Ubuntu
Most people will be happy with the default font sets installed on Linux, which dictate the fonts Duration: 4:46
How to get the real name of font?
Check the output from the fc-list command (in a terminal window):
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/LiberationMono-Italic.ttf: Liberation Mono:style=Italic /usr/share/fonts/TTF/VeraMono.ttf: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Roman /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Oblique /usr/share/fonts/OTF/LinLibertine_M.otf: Linux Libertine Mono O:style=Mono /usr/share/fonts/OTF/LinLibertine_M.otf: Linux Libertine Mono O:style=Mono /usr/share/fonts/OTF/LinLibertine_M.otf File name : Separator Linux Libertine Mono O Font name (note, remove the initial space) : Separator style=Oblique The font 'style' Font style is normally one of Regular (or Normal ), Italic (or Oblique ), Monospace (or Mono ), Book , and combinations of these are valid.
The middle value (‘Font name’) is normally the name you’d want to use. If it contains space(s) you might need to escape each space (with a ‘\’ in front) or put the entire name in quotes (‘»‘). Not always necessary though.
Beware that some font names contain extended characters (such as the TM or Copyright symbol) so you may need to handle those. (they can appear as, eg. ⢠in fc-list output)
Software such as font-manager show those names too.
How to Install (and Remove) Font Files on Windows 10, Basically, if you install the font for all users, Windows is copying the file you just selected into C:\Windows\Fonts , which is the system font
How to view a TTF font file?
I use character maps heavily and decides to make one which you access from anywhere using a web interface and requires no installation. Works best on Chrome.
- Select your own font file
- Provides font and character information
- Character copy-able
- Supports TTF/OTF
- Supports Icon fonts
- Simple interface
- No installation necessary
- No server upload necessary
gnome-font-viewer (part of GNOME of course) can do this (this is the default association for fonts under GNOME); indeed, it comes with a button to install the font, which obviously wouldn’t make sense if the font needed to be installed already.
fontmatrix lets you organize groups of fonts to be installed or uninstalled, and you can preview them and see their features, whether installed or not.
Most font editors, like fontforge, certainly don’t require the fonts to be installed to open them up and look at them.
display OpenSans-CondBold.ttf ![what <code></noscript></p><p>display</code> displays when opening a font file»/></p><p>display is part of imagemagick , so you will need it to be installed.</p><p>Answer possible thanks to this forum post.</p><p>This problem has been bugging me for years, because it is only every few months that I want to preview a font and I never remembered which software solved it last time, so I made a video version of this answer to make it easier to find in the future.</p><p>Linux — Is there a unix command line tool that can analyze font files?, In Linux, if you have .ttf fonts, you most probably also have fontconfig, which comes with the fc-scan utility. You can parse the output for</p><h2>How to get a valid font name on linux system which can be used in .Xresources config?</h2><p>First, you have to decide if you want to use core protocol or Xft for font rendering. As you see in another answer, xfontsel is the right tool to get a correct font name for core protocol. But it’s unlikely to be what you want for truetype fonts (do you want antialiasing? Then Xft is your choice).</p><p>If urxvt is built with Xft support (check urxvt —help 2>&1 | grep options to be sure), you might want to give it font names prefixed by xft:</p><p>Other options affecting font matching and rendering may be specified in xft font name:</p><pre><code>URxvt.font: xft:Courier New:pixelsize=18:antialias=false</code> </pre><p>(search man rxvt for xft: for further details)</p><p>All available font names can be queried with fc-list . E.g. fc-list|grep courbd.ttf shows you the font name is Courier New and style is Bold (append :style=Bold to select it).</p><p>Use fc-match «Courier New» to check which font is the best match for a given name from Xft’s point of view.</p><p>Other applications may have their own conventions for X11 and Xft font names. E.g. the same xft: prefix is used by emacs; xterm uses faceName and renderFont resources to determine whether to use Xft and which font to request; xedit supports core protocol only. The mere fact that the application is configurable from X resources isn’t enough to tell how the font names are interpreted.</p><p>i think you can use the program</p><p>to get the complete name of the font. The font name looks like this:</p><p>Is the any way to see PostScript name of font in Linux, I need to know the PostScript name of the .ttf font. The «Linux gnu» command is $ fc-scan [TTF-font] , and one of the last lines will show</p><p><a href=](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UuAov.png)
Locating fonts on Linux (in C++)
I want to be able to get the absolute path to a ttf font file on Linux when given a font name (if it exists). Is there a command or API that will return that information? For example, given «arial.ttf» I want to find the absolute path (e.g. /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf) wherever that may be.
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The easiest way is probably to use fontconfig with the —format option:
$ fc-match --format=% LiberationSans-Regular.ttf will result in the output
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf Instead of the font file name, you can also supply a font description that may be something like mono , DejaVu , :weight=bold , DejaVu-12 , or DejaVu:weight=bold . So, for example,
$ fc-match --format=% :weight=bold /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf on my system. The only thing that does not seem to work is giving the complete path of the font file.
@Mohan As I said: Just replace the file name with the font description. I have added a working example for the font description now. Hope it helps.
Arguably, it’s a really bad idea to try to access fonts by path, the linux fonts stack is not designed this way. There won’t be any stability in locations and a lot of the «fonts» users expect in font lists do not map to a single font file but are composites of multiple font files.
If you want to be consistent with all the other desktop apps (and users expect the font choices to work the same way in all apps) you need to access fonts by patterns through the fontconfig indirection layer (using pango-cairo, or QT) and accept the result may be complex and not intuitive.
It does not matter that it seems less than intuitive to you, it only matters that font selections work the same way as in all other apps. And usually there are very good reasons for fontconfig mapping choices.
Find font file from font name on Linux
I have a font with the name Media Gothic. How can I find the file name of that font in Linux? I need to copy that file to another system. I’ve tried:
find /usr/share/fonts/ -name '*media*' But this gives no results. gothic gives some other fonts. TTF is a binary format so I can’t use grep .
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Also give a try to fc-scan , fc-match
How does this help locate the actual font file? The font file name might be (at best) a scrambled version of the actual font name.
where FontName is the exact font name found with
fc-list | grep -i approximate-or-partial-font-name
On newer systems — yes, but on older ones fc-list withouth the file command does not show filenames for the fonts listed. And the file command could only be specified after a FontName.
You should mention that in answer, that on older system accepted answer don’t show files names and you need to call fc-list again to get the filename.
Portable 1-liner (w/ extra, automating steps). fc-list $(fc-list|grep -i