Questions tagged [fonts]
Questions related to the management, installation and removal of fonts.
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Where on earth are my fonts? Firefox has nothing for "sans-serif"?
I recently upgraded to 15.10 and jumped through a bunch of hoops to get Clementine running and somewhere along the way I stopped seeing text on quite a few web pages in Firefox.
I thought that a ...
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CLion ugly fonts
I have a problem with Clion fonts. They look really ugly. I tried different methods to fix that:
Urshulyak solution
JetBrains forum solution
AskUbuntu solution
I even installed infinality and ...
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Strange symbols shown in terminal, font missing
After reinstalling Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I got strange symbols in the terminal:
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Some fonts seem to be not correctly installed. What fonts are missing?
Perhaps "Inconsolata" font is the missing ...
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Strange unreadable font in ubuntu software center
I just finished setting up Ubuntu 14.04. When I open the software center half of the items appear in a font from a language unknown to me like in the scr below. Anyone with a solution for this?
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setting global font scaling (which will affect menu bars, editors, such as gvim) [duplicate]
I remember setting something that affected the font size in GUI elements such as menu bars as well as text areas in editors (such as the default font setting in gvim).
I tried to look into the "...
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Why ubuntu is missing letters?
I wondered why my ubuntu is missing letters, the internet, when I'm writing a text in the terminal until the installation had a lot of missing letters, already gave reboot muitasa times and nothing ...
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How can I display Font Awesome fonts in Character Map?
I am running on Ubuntu 14.04 x64, and I've just installed FontAwesome - firstly by running install on the ttf file, which I grabbed from http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/; and secondly by ...
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What is compatible Font for both Linux and Windows by their default?
What is compatible font that works in both Linux and Windows (in my case Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 7) by their default (without adding any font addition in both OS)?
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Pale/Opaque font color
I don't know what I did but all of a sudden certain fonts (Courier, I believe) displayed on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS machine became kind of pale/opaque, which makes coding very challenging. See the below ...
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Downloading Google Fonts
Is it possible to download all google fonts and have them available under Ubuntu? This would help my webdev.
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Resolution Too High for Programs on XPS 13
I installed Ubuntu 15.10 (upgraded from 15.04) on the XPS13 (9343, Windows version).
As this ultrabook has a very high resolution touch-screen (3200x1800), I followed some useful threads on how to fix ...
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How to make your own font?
I've always wanted to make my own font, is there a font creating application which will have the following features?:
Ability to draw fonts with different tools (similar collection of tools to GIMP, ...
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The 'reboot required' character doesn't render with PuTTY and Ubuntu Mono
I have "Remote character set" to "UTF-8" and the font set to "Ubuntu Mono, 12-point".
The Ubuntu logo character render correctly but not the "reboot required" character.
Is there a way to fix this?
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How can I backup and restore all installed fonts?
I am going to re-install my system. But before I do that, I would like to prepare everything well. One thing which is missing is making a backup of all fonts I have installed. I remember that I ...
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Can't use tahoma font
I have installed infinality-bundle to refine font rendering but now I can't use tahoma font. neither my system nor Firefox can read it although it's installed . tahoma font is replaced by ...
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Ubuntu 15.10 - UI themes aren't correctly loaded
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10, and now themes aren't being applied correctly to the UI. Fonts are rendered inconsistently, with elements appearing in what seems an old GTK default. My customized ...
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How do I resolve missing characters in my unicode font?
I have tried Firefox and Chrome and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and there seems to be a sizeable chunk of Unicode characters that I cannot render.
Here is one example, and here is another example.
What is ...
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Somehow UI font looks skinny in 15.10
https://i.stack.imgur.com/It7Jr.png
https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hz4eW.png
Fonts looks weird in menu bar and dash and normal in other places.
How can i solve this problem?
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Fonts displayed incorrectly on 15.10
I recently have installed Ubuntu and got this disorder problem on my screen.
With those missing or incorrectly displayed letters everywhere, it's impossible to read anything.
What shall I do, will I ...
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how can we prevent ttf-mscorefonts-installer to be installed? [duplicate]
When i try to install some packages after a fresh-install, ttf-mscorefonts-install appears as dependency, and is trying to force me to agree with Microsoft’s licence, which i don’t agree at all.
So i ...
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Very UGLY font rendering in java apps
Does anybody in here knows how to fix these fugly fonts?
I've got installed java openjdk 8 and im running on ubuntu 15.04.
I tried installing java oracle jdk 8 but it didn't help, then i deleted it ...
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How to change menu item font size?
My Ubuntu 15.04 menu font is much smaller than that of the title bar. I want to make them the same size, and I have tried Ubuntu Tweak and Tweak Tools, but no matter what I change, the size of default ...
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How to install monaco font in webstorm [duplicate]
I am using ubuntu 14.04 LTS,
I am new to ubuntu and webstorm, I want to install monaco font in webstorm, so I installed monaco font in my system using this command
curl -kL https://raw.github.com/...
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Custom fonts not working correctly in the terminal
I just installed Ubuntu and, upon opening the terminal, I tried to customize it; everything works fine, except when I try to use a custom font, in which case the spacing between letters is completely ...
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Font issue with MT4 and Ubuntu 14.04
There was a post before about installing MetaTrader 4 on Ubuntu Answer to follow but was wondering if my issue is different. I did copy over the Wingding font to get the smiley face in the top right ...
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Unable to install ubuntustudio fonts
I am trying to install the ubuntustudio-font-meta using apt but nothing I do seems to make them install.
The problem is I just installed them last week on another machine but on this it fails with ...
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Popup fonts in IntelliJ IDEA are too large, or bold/pixelated, 15.04 using tuxjdk
Here's a screenshot showing the problem:
As you can see, where the autocomplete text exceeds the size of the popup, the font becomes strange. Similarly, the popup window has text much larger than ...
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Is is possible to make additional fonts available only for one application?
I installed Carlito and Caladea via Ubuntu Software Center as a substitute for Calibri and Cambria and it works great! However, some applications (such as WPS office) do not recognize this ...
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Which fonts can be correctly displayed in GRUB?
I just installed grub-customizer, it's pretty cool. It also lets you add a background image and change the font.
However, the fonts always look bad (i.e. it's using a different font or what it thinks ...
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How do I fix bad font rendering in web broswers?
This just happened today - the fonts in my web browers' UI as well as content looks awful. I'm running an up to date version of Ubuntu 15.04. The browsers affected are chromium and Firefox. Strangely, ...
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ImageMagick "convert" command cannot use fonts!
convert -size 300x50 xc:none -font Arial -pointsize 20 -gravity center -draw "fill white text 1,1 \"$1\" text 0,0 \"$1\" fill black text -1,-1 \"$1\"" $WATERMARK_FILE
Above command results following ...
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Kubuntu: Chrome and Firefox Tab and bookmarks fonts are really tiny
How do you make them bigger? Today I had a monitor go black, loaded nvidia management to correct this problem, also adjusted monitors via window management. Not sure if those adjustments changed the ...
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Only allow websites to use already installed fonts and not download their own in Firefox
I have read a lot lately about fonts being malicious, and as a website can just download its own custom font onto your machine so that it can use it, it could exploit something with this and do ...
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VLC Player and VirtualBox font problem in Xubuntu 14.04 LTS
I've installed VLC player and VirtualBox. Both of them have the similar character/font problem as you may see from the screen shots.
I also tried to install and re-installing them via Software Center ...
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Urdu font problem in ubuntu 14.04LTS
I am new to Ubuntu and experiencing problem of urdu font. On some websites(such as bbcurdu) it appears correct and some places it do not (specifically facebook). I have tried to install font-nafees ...
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Is there a way to properly format an Ubuntu font?
I'm trying to distribute Ubuntu Mono Regular with a Media Player I'm developing: https://github.com/ki4jgt/SIMP
It is my understanding that a font is defined like in line 27
uMono = pyglet.font.load(...
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config dual monitors with quite different resolution
I have two monitors at work. One is a Dell 27 inch with 4K resolution and the other one is a Dell 20 inch at 1680 x 1050.
However, due to the resolution difference between these two monitors, the ...
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Arabic numbers/dates showing in various places
I've just installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
I live in the Middle East, and so I set my country location (in the ME) and set my language to English (UK).
Although I'm now getting Arabic numbers and dates ...
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set fallback font for default serif and sans-serif
Default sans-serif font which is used in system, doesn't have some characters from Middle-Eastern languages. So I want to set a fallback font to be used when some symbols are missing.
AFAIK, it's ...
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Package 'ttf-mscorefonts-installer' has no installation candidate
I am having a Java based web application running in Amazon EC2 Ubuntu server. I use Jasper reports to generate some reports in PDF format. I built these reports using 'Jaspersoft Studio'
Now, when I ...
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IBus avro Bangla writing problem in libre office
I've properly installed iBus-avro and libre office on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but whenever I type words like 'সদস্য' or 'প্রিয়' it actually gets typed as 'সদস' and 'পরয়'. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
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Bangla font problem in blogger.com?
Could please anyone confirm me that the bangla fonts in any blogger site render correctly or incorrectly in their Ubuntu 14.04?
Bangla fonts appear correctly in facebook.com and techtunes.com.bd ...
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What is the default set of fonts available to web browsers after installation
I don't have an install of Ubuntu but am hoping this community can answer a question for me — I am trying to build a CSS font stack that includes a font the majority of Ubuntu users will have ...
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Wrong rendering of inconsalata in terminator
These are two consecutive screenshots of the terminator window with inconsalata font
the issue is that : . ! don't get rendered normally the first time and these chars are almost invisible while ...
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Bengali font problem in Blogger.com
I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my PC. There is no apparent problem in Bengali font rendering in websites such as techtunes.com.bd and somewhereinblog.com but whenever I switch to my blog on ...
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How do unknown fonts get substituted?
Let's assume I have a foreign text document I open with a text editing tool that recognizes fonts (e.g. LibreOffice Writer). In this document, there might be some fonts used that are not available on ...
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Adapt font and icon sizes to High Definition screen resolutions in Ubuntu-Studio XFCE
I have a Dell XPS 13. I got it with windows 8 and it adapts the fonts and icons to the 3200x1800 screen resolution. Then I start my virtual Ubuntu Studio 14.04 machine and they look really small. How ...
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How to install Arial font (and other Windows fonts) in ubuntu?
How to install Arial font in Ubuntu?
I found many ways to install fonts in Ubuntu but I didn't find any proper way or method to install (particularly) Arial fonts in Ubuntu.
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ubuntu gnome 14.04.2 - fonts broken
I've a fresh install Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.2.
Randomly it happens that font gets broken (becomes unreadable) in terminal and also in gedit. Please note that, if I select the broken text (for example ...
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Boot in failed. Shows Fontconfig error
After an unsuccessful upgrade from 12.04 LTS to 14.04, I am not allowed to login as it shows a black screen with message beginning with
Fontconfig error:"etc/fonts/conf.d/65-khmer.conf", line 14: out ...