Installing other fonts on wine

Question

Is there a way to install fonts on wine?

I'm looking to install fonts so i can use them to render text differently on various apps. Specifically myriad.

Answer 1

Wine gets its fonts from three places:

1. The standard system fonts at /usr/share/fonts. You can add fonts here by installing font packages from Software Center, if they're available. Avoid manually copying files here.
2. Wine's private /usr/share/wine/fonts folder. You shouldn't add fonts here, but if you see a font in Wine and not in the system it's probably here. Examples of these fonts include Wine's private marlett, symbol, and tahoma fonts, which are needed for application compatibility but otherwise aren't the best.
3. The ~/.fonts folder in your home directory. This is where you should manually copy self-installed fonts, either downloaded from the Internet or copied from a Windows install.

In the case of conflicts (eg you install the real Tahoma font into your home directory), Wine is smart about it and uses the manually-installed ones.

Answer 2

Wine says here

Font configuration, once a nasty problem, is now much simpler. If you have a collection of TrueType fonts in Windows it's simply a matter of copying the .ttf files into c:\windows\fonts.

Answer 3

Another option is to install PlayOnLinux which by default after starting it will install several of the Microsoft fonts (Am guessing also found in winetricks).