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The following question answers how to Adjust fonts using tweak tool but the luddite in me would like to know how to do this without installing unity-tweak-tool.

How can I adjust the default system font from a terminal.

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Reset to default
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gsettings offers a simple commandline interface to GSettings. It lets you get, set or monitor an individual key for changes.

  • You can set fonts by following commands in terminal :

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name 'Sans 10'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'Ubuntu 10'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name 'Ubuntu Mono 11'
gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop font 'Ubuntu 10'

  • To Know current settings type following commands in terminal :

    gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name
gsettings get org.gnome.nautilus.desktop font

Additional:

  • To find all similar keys on schema type following command:

    gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.interface

  • To reset all valuses of keys run following command in terminal:

    gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.desktop.interface
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  • Application developers and end-users are recommended to use Gsettings, not Dconf directly.
    – Pandya
    Apr 24, 2014 at 8:49
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Recent updates have been changing the font scaling factors on my system, reset them with this command...

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor '1.0'
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You can use dconf to change the default system font:

dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/font-name "'NanumGothic Italic 11'"

To restore the original value:

dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/font-name "'Ubuntu 11'"

Note: to check the current value, use the following command:

dconf read /org/gnome/desktop/interface/font-name
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  • Deserves more upvotes.
    – don.joey
    Dec 7, 2014 at 15:28
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you could also try this answer:

setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/UbuntuMono-R-8x16.psf

this is an example; you can see a list of available fonts like this:

ls /usr/share/consolefonts

and should you for some reason not have them, you can install them like this:

sudo apt-get install fonts-ubuntu-font-family-console

note that you may need to put the setfont command in your .profile or .bashrc as it may need to be run upon every login

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