Questions tagged [fonts]
Questions related to the management, installation and removal of fonts.
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How do I change the font or the font size in the TTY (console)?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. Recently, the font size for all of my TTYs became much larger.
How can I change the font size back to the default?
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Looking for the ttf2pt1 package
I need to convert a .ttf (TrueType font) file to .pfa format and according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1676342/generating-afm-from-ttf I need ttf2pt1. However when I try to install it under ...
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How to increase font size in Vim editor?
I write C programs in Vim; the font size in it is very small.
Is there any option to increase the font size in Vim?
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Ubuntu 23.04 - Rectangles instead of text on SPAs
While using some SPAs (tested with Teams for Linux and Whatsie), every time I open the Files app through the app itself (to download/upload files), it shows squares instead of the actual text.
I ...
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characters in terminal not 100% white and backgournd is not 100% black on terminator window on xfce4
I use two machines often using vnn. One is ubuntu 20.04 unity the other is ubuntu 22.04 xfce4.
I used terminator window on both systems.
But in the xfce4 case, the character is not 100% white and the ...
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Why do I have bad font anti-aliasing (colored halos) in Kubuntu 18.04?
I just installed a fresh Kubuntu 18.04 and have a really bad font rendering, or better to say subpixel rendering.
The characters are surrounded by red and green halos. It's different, depending on ...
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Remove Font Scaling — Font Manager Settings Changed Font Appearance
I think I must have changed a wrong setting in Font Manager: all the system fonts suddenly changed appearance. Before, they were normal, and now they are pixelated and squarish.
Text is pixelated and ...
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How can I install a complete Arabic font?
I have installed Arabic language support using the language tool, but I am still unable to get this page to render correctly:
http://www.iamcal.com/understanding-bidirectional-text/
Which fonts do I ...
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Fonts totally unreadable
I've just upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 and my fonts are all just small rectangles with nothing in them. They are completely unreadable. EVEN THE FONTS IN THE TERMINAL.
Thank god the fonts in my ...
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How to change the font of various terminal emulators?
Mainly:
Gnome Terminal
Xfce Terminal
Konsole
LXTerminal
Terminator
Guake
Yakuake
Urxvt
Xterm
Mrxvt
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Why is the fonts-iosevka package not included in Ubuntu repositories?
I'd like to install the Iosevka font on Ubuntu 22.04.
The instructions on the GitHub page say 'install one of the fonts-iosevka packages'. When I do apt-search fonts-, lots of packages for other fonts ...
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PlayOnLinux not detecting FreeType fonts - ubuntu 18.04
Just started with PlayOnLinux - Tried to install few apps and every time I get some sort of variation of this:
10/11/18 12:16:38 - [POL_Wine] Message: Running wine-1.6.2 /home/callmebob/Downloads/...
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Too many Noto fonts after upgrading to 23.10
After upgrading to 23.10 (from 23.04) I noticed that on my system there are more than 220 Noto fonts. This is kind of insane. In today's world of UTF standard why do we have so many fonts for some ...
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Text doesn't show on a game (Wine)
The game, SMMWE, formally Super Mario Maker World Engine, was working perfectly, as in no problems, a few versions ago (that is, and older version of the game, not older wine).
When I decided to ...
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PDF metadata viewer / tag editor for Ubuntu
There are a lot of questions and answers regarding the best PDF viewer available with Ubuntu, but I want to parse the PDF file and know details of PDF, such as images, fonts and links that are ...
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Powerline font shapes slanted only in prompt
I've got a fresh install of Ubuntu Budgie on a VMWare guest. I use Tilix for my terminal.
I installed the powerline fonts on my system to have access to the various shapes it provides.
Regardless of ...
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Install Tahoma font in Ubuntu
When I tried to install the font Tahoma with these commands, I got two errors (permissions denied):
$ cabextract -F 'tahoma*ttf' IELPKTH.CAB
IELPKTH.CAB: WARNING; possible 5592 extra bytes at end of ...
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Not all font and colour schemas are selectable in Kate
On my Kate configuration directory (~/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax/) I have files such as: octave.xml, opencl.xml, orgmode.xml, ...
However I have no way to see them when trying to ...
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Which elements are affected by font hinting?
I used gnome-tweaks to change font hinting and reloaded gnome with alt F2 "t" but I couldn't determine any changes are only some elements affected? or do I need better glasses?
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Font selector drop-list missing from Freehand MX under Wine
I am testing an old abandonware application Macromedia Freehand MX under Wine, which is a vector graphics editor. It seems to work mostly fine. However, the font selector drop-list is missing from the ...
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Unicode text does not render in WSL Ubuntu
My installation of Ubuntu in WSL fails to render Unicode text. Below is a screenshot from Sanskrit Wikipedia.
How should I fix it?
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some Persian numbers look broken (seven and four)
I almost have this issue with all newly installed distros.
some Persian numbers look so weird. like seven and three.
This is how '7' looks like in Persian:
In my Kubuntu 23.04 machine (Broken Seven ...
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How to change the system fixed width font using terminal
Need way to change the system fixed width font USING TERMINAL! Because all ways do it using interface was useless for me. I haven't that inferface tabs was I found out in many sites.
System spec:
OS ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Chromium snap fonts missing and become 'boxy'
My fonts stop working randomly in Chromium browser
VERSION="20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
Chromium 89.0.4389.72 snap
It goes back to normal when I restart or log back in, but then 1 hour or 5 ...
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Where can I find the openoffice fonts not in Libre like calibri
OPenoffice has several nice fonts that are not part of the standard Libre install. Where / how can they be obtained for use in Libre or do I need to install OpenOffice on my ubunut 16.10 to be able to ...
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How can I customize GNOME from the terminal [I'm using Cubic]
I'm trying to customize an Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS ISO from the Cubic app.
I have a few commands that do the job I want, but apparently in the terminal provided by Cubic to modify the system they don'...
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How to download and install the Roboto Mono font?
How can I download and install the Roboto Mono font on Ubuntu?
This is the font I am referring to:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Mono
It is a monospaced version of the Roboto fonts.
The ...
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How to install additional Gimp fonts
I want to install more text fonts on Gimp. Currently I have only the default fonts.
Where can I download and install them?
I am on Ubuntu 13.04, using gnome - lastest version.
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how to remove non-latin fonts without auto-removing xubuntu-desktop?
xubuntu-desktop installs by default many non-latin fonts, which is great for asian or arabic users but clutters my (western-user) interface to pick a font in the fonts list.
So I did remove many fonts ...
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Increase GUI font size of Foxit Reader
I'm using foxit reader on Ubuntu 16.04, but the font size for menus, toolbar, etc. is so incredibly small that I have to actually move closer and squint to read it. In the preferences, there is a ...
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Can I change the Linux console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) font to Ubuntu Mono?
Is there a way to set a specific TTF font to be used on the console? (I believe you might have to convert it to a bitmap font?)
If it needs to be converted, what tools can I use to do the conversion? ...
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LibreOffice missing certain Microsoft fonts
I don't have these fonts: times new roman, arial and calibri..., like in microsoft office? What can I do?
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How can I remove the font/icon shadow/s?
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop, how can I remove the font/icon shadow/s?
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Window font size is small on WSL Ubuntu 22.04.3 windows 11
I installed gnuplot on WSL Ubuntu 22.04.3 and created a simple plot. The font for all text is pretty small, as shown in the screenshot below.
Is there a global setting for the window font to be set ...
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How do I solve blurry font in Google Chrome?
I just installed Ubuntu and I'm trying to use Lucida Sans across the system.
It looks fine everywhere except in the pages in the browser.
Is there any way to solve it?
Thank you
Nptice the difference ...
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Suddenly my font looks worse
I have been using Source Sans Pro in Ubuntu 23.04 without problem.
Suddenly, font changed its readability for the system but not in the browser.
I would like to know how to fix it.
I'm thinking it may ...
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Garbled text in GUI
This is what I see in some places on my Ubuntu 22.04 with Wayland and GNOME in a VirtualBox VM:
It's particularly bad in VS Code: the dialog window (which is supposed to be about settings sync) and ...
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Libreoffice not displaying fonts properly (Ubuntu 22.04 XFCE)
I'm trying to edit a PDF on LibreOffice Draw and the fonts aren't displaying (or exporting) properly in it which makes editing it very difficult. Here's an image showing what I mean.
What do I do?
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How do I install Urdu fonts in Libreoffice Writer like Jameel Noori Nastaleeq?
I am new user of ubuntu, i dont know how to download any urdu font in libreoffice writer??
fonts like jameel noori nastaleeq
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Hex characters showing instead of unicode on Ubuntu 22.04 (XFCE)
I was trying to fix an issue I had with Libreoffice not displaying certain fonts properly, and when I tried this solution, every character turned into a square, which a reset fixed.
Since then, ...
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How to stop LibreOffice Draw from converting barcodes to numbers when opening a PDF file?
I am using LibreOffice Draw to edit a PDF document which has a barcode printed in it. Draw decodes the barcode and replaces it with numbers as soon as I open the document. The decoded text is of ...
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Changing font styles of lightdm-gtk-greeter
I can change my font using the following option in lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf:
font-name = ...
But I'm not sure how to change the size or weight. I tried putting the following CSS in my GTK theme:
#...
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LibreOffice Writter font selection menu is laggy
I am currently using Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. Everything is running great except LibreOffice writer font selection menu. Whenever i click on it, it takes some time to response. Then whenever i turn scroll ...
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Why is text width while using FONTCONFIG_PATH are always rounded
I am running chrome and chromium and behavior remains same both browsers.
If I don't set FONTCONFIG_PATH environment variable for the browser process, I see floating point numbers such as 136....
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Desktop screen zoomed in automatically right from boot time. In Settings, 'Zoom' is set to 'off'
I use Ubuntu 22.04 with Gnome.
This problem first surfaced yesterday morning. I thought (for no logical reason) that some font zip files I'd downloaded the day before might be the problem so i changed ...
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23.04 - Weird spaces around some characters after uninstalling Deepin DE
I wanted to try Deepin DE on my Ubuntu 23.04 system, so I installed it, but I didn’t liked it. I removed all the packages it installed (I put the list in a file so I could remove them later).
However ...
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GUI DPI scaling on certain apps very small
I recently installed STEAM and webcamstudio on my UBUNTU machine which is running a resolution of 1920 x 1080. I have found that these applications do not honor the system-wide font sizes, but use ...
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How to get Ubuntu to display unicode supplementary characters?
I have a standard desktop UI install of the latest Ubuntu distro and I'm trying to view this page: http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/supplementary-test.html.
However none of the text display properly. I ...
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Removing all unnecessary fonts from system
My system was upgraded from 18.10 to 19.04, then to 19.10 and finally to 20.04. I have been using it for more than 15 months as my primary computer. This is a typical default Ubuntu installation with ...
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How to redefine font substitution?
I would like to have HelveticaLTStd-Bold substituted with LiberationSans-Bold font. It is already installed in many places:
but DejaVu Sans is chosen instead:
paul@desktop:~$ fc-match "...
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