Font Options on openSUSE. Window title font - The font used on the text in window titles. Fixed width font - Specifies the font to be used when the system needs to display fixed width font. A prime example of this is the text that is rendered in a Terminal window. In terms of font selection options, fonts may be specified by type (Utopia, Serif.
How to install arial fonts(particularly)
in Ubuntu?
I found many ways to install fonts in Ubuntu but I didn't find any proper way or method to install arial fonts(particularly)
in Ubuntu.
4 Answers
I'm sure, it's a duplicate, anyway.
Simply run
in a terminal.
After that, check with
Currently, there is a problem with sourceforge. The installer can't download the fonts properly.
I have been getting LiberationSans-Regular.ttf: 'Liberation Sans' 'Regular' for sudo fc-match Arial
So I tried following to make it work :
1) Create directory to download fonts to: sudo mkdir ~/ms-fonts/
2) cd ~/ms-fonts/
3) Download fonts manually :
4) sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer and follow instructions. When asked, use full path to directory where fonts were downloaded i.e. /home/root2/ms-fonts/
5) sudo fc-cache
6) Check if installation is done successfully or not : sudo fc-match Arial
Hope this helps.
Since the ttf-mscorefonts-installer
mechanism mentioned in the accepted answer is still broken in Ubuntu 18.04 and I could not find a suitable mirror server for it to fix it, I propose to use this manual mechanism instead to install the very same fonts:
Install
cabextract
, a tool needed to unpack self-extracting.exe
archives:Download the font package provided via this page (also note the EULA there):
Unpack, twice:
Move the fonts to your user's directory for installing additional fonts:
Restart the software in which you want to use the fonts, and they should be ready to use.
Do following steps:
- Open software manager if its mint or Ubuntu software center if youare using Ubuntu
- Search for
ttf-mscorefonts
- Install it
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Is it possible for the Linux community to buy the rights for the Microsoft fonts so that they can be included in every distribution (or with distributions that would like to include them)?
Would Microsoft consider something like that? Selling Microsoft Fonts (Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Calibri etc.) or their license to the Linux community?
closed as off-topic by Gilles, jasonwryan, user26112, Michael Mrozek♦Jul 16 '13 at 4:16
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A font like tahoma can be found in the wine fonts
package. There's also a package called ttf-ms-fonts
which includes some the fonts you mentioned and can be legally installed. See for example this information for arch linux.
Includes:
- Andalé Mono
- Arial
- Arial Black
- Comic Sans
- Courier New
- Georgia
- Impact
- Lucida Sans
- Lucida Console
- Microsoft Sans Serif
- Times New Roman
- Trebuchet
- Verdana
- Webdings
- Wingdings
Arial and Verdana were released as part of the 'Core Fonts for the Web' project. These are still freely [legally] available and easy to install in Linux.
Tahoma... and newer fonts like Calibri ... heh, I think it's very unlikely that these could ever be had [legally] for free.
Your best option would be to check through this site:
If you go to that site and click one of the links to check out either the fonts embedded in an MS application or a font family you'll get to a page about a particular font. At the bottom of those pages is this blurb:
These links will take you from the Microsoft web site to a Monotype Imaging web site. Monotype can provide many common Microsoft supplied fonts under license from Microsoft or under license from other font vendors.
If you search for 'monotype microsoft' you'll stumble into this page:
On this page is a link for purchasing fonts and also the licenses: