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Questions tagged [fonts]

A font is an entire set of glyphs that make up a typeface. Installing a font allows the user to use that font in order to change the appearance of text on an output device such as a screen or printer.

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How to install Microsoft True Type fonts for Centos 7?

There is no fonts directory in /usr/share at all on my system. How can I go about installing Microsoft True Type fonts in Centos 7? I only need Arial and Georgia.
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Using ~/.fonts.conf to change the weight of monospace fonts

On OS X, monospaced fonts are slightly more weighted than the other fonts. This (I feel) helps bring out the colors more vividly. Since I am on Linux, I'm trying to replicate the behavior. I'm trying to do this by editing the property "weight" in…
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How do I get the font name from a font file?

Say I have a file "foo_whatever.ttf" Is there a command line tool to get the actual font name from the file? The below link does contain the answer but I didn't turn it up in my search results, in particular "/fonts name". Looking back, I could…
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How do I diagnose a font rendering problem?

I recently updated my Fedora Rawhide system, and after doing so, fonts in Firefox (now 31) are ugly. But... not all of them. I traced it down to some fonts being rendered as "Helvetica" (the element inspector in Firefox tells me so), and this being…
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Can I install some debs from Ubuntu on Debian Squeeze to get nice font rendering?

I have both Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu 10.04 machines; the font rendering in 10.04/10.10 is beautiful out of the box but Squeeze is still ugly even after hours and hours of messing with configuration. (IMO - I realize this is…
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missing pieces of certain letters in text in Linux Mint

My problem is that as I type this message, in the second word, "problem", there are horizontal slices of missing bits in both the l and the m. Following perusal of a similar question on the askUbuntu site, my problems persist. Here are the results…
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How can I see what fonts support a given character?

Say I’m looking for a list of which of my installed fonts support a given Unicode character. say the ⁂ and ☺ characters (an asterism and emoticon smile). What graphical program would I use to preview this characters in the given font?
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How to install many fonts at once on Linux?

I just switched over from Windows to Linux Mint. However, as I do web design, there are many fonts on my Windows hard disk that I would want to carry over to my Linux installation. It is possible to install fonts by double-clicking them from within…
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How to make a bitmap font for *nix environments?

I have been softy on windows as a font tool to make a bitmap font, it's essentially a modified version of profont I keep using, mostly because the original version is not perfect to me. I also made a proportional narrower version of profont, which I…
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How to I change GNOME 3.8 top bar font?

It can not be changed through GNOME Tweak Tool, so anyone know the answer?
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Weird font rendering in Debian GNU/Linux

I'm using Debian 8 Jessie with the Xfce4 desktop environment. I however have this weird font rendering issue where two characters are standing too close to each other. Please see the image here: Here you can see that in "YouTube" the "Y" and "o"…
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Fonts not being displayed correctly in Linux Mint 17.2 32bit

I have been using Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela for a while now, but often it is the case that fonts are not rendered correctly in the file explorer and in the web browser window. I mean something similar to this- [][1 and The problem was with the beta…
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How to determine "native" sizes for bitmapped fonts?

I have installed Emacs24 (emacs24-lucid from wheezy-backports) on an otherwise stable Debian system, and I run it under X11 Under X11, Emacs24 displays some font families, such as ProFontIIx, as non-antialiased fonts only when I choose the size of…
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UTF-8 support for Monaco font on linux

I am obsessed with the Monaco font (from Mac terminal.app) and I want to have it on my gentoo setup. The problem is that I'm greek and Monaco does not want to work with unicode characters (greek letters and some special characters that I use). Is…
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Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console

this is my first post, so don't be harsh if something isn't right. I'm by no means an advanced linux user. I'm using XFCE, but I am only trying to change the font of text mode consoles. I was trying to change the font on my system. I 'cd'ed into…
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