Is it possible to download all google fonts and have them available under Ubuntu? This would help my webdev.
3 Answers
An easier method is to get them directly from Github: https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/master/apache. Each font has its own subdirectory, with uncompressed font files.
There's also a ZIP file of them available from the main https://github.com/google/fonts#readme page.
So, if you want to script this stuff (e.g. regularly download the latest version), you can do it with a Git checkout, or by using wget or curl to pull down the exact files you want.
PS: This thread is a dup of "How do I install fonts?".
If you trust webupd8:
cd ~/Downloads && wget http://webupd8.googlecode.com/files/install-google-fonts
chmod +x install-google-fonts
./install-google-fonts
In case anyone need to check without downloading: this is the source code for "install-google-fonts":
$ more install-google-fonts
# Original author: Michalis Georgiou <[email protected]>
# Modified by Andrew http://www.webupd8.org <[email protected]>
sudo apt-get install mercurial
_hgroot="https://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/"
_hgrepo="googlefontdirectory"
echo "Connecting to Mercurial server...."
if [ -d $_hgrepo ] ; then
cd $_hgrepo
hg pull -u || return 1
echo "The local files have been updated."
cd ..
else
hg clone $_hgroot $_hgrepo || return 1
fi
echo "Mercurial checkout done or server timeout"
sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/google-fonts/
find $PWD/$_hgrepo/ -name "*.ttf" -exec sudo install -m644 {} /usr/share/fonts/t
ruetype/google-fonts/ \; || return 1
fc-cache -f > /dev/null
echo "done."
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I better do not make my pc dependent on any dubious source. Can I use google fonts for a commercial purpose? Nov 14, 2015 at 11:46
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1yes: developers.google.com/fonts "The fonts in the directory are all released under open source licenses; you can use them on any non-commercial or commercial project." 1st part: you can always remove mercurial when done if that is an issue. All the other parts in the script seem fine to me :)– RinzwindNov 14, 2015 at 11:49
You can have much easier way with these terminal commands :
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tasksel
sudo tasksel
And it will show you a bunch of packages collection, and then simply select :
[*] Large selection of font packages
And then give it an OK. Hope it satisfy your design needs :)
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That... does not include google-fonts or if it does pulls in a lot more I'd believe. Plus your command can be reduced to 1:
sudo apt-get install {package}^
. The ^ in there makes it a tasksel task. Works for all tasks.– RinzwindNov 11, 2015 at 18:25 -
Don't know how to select anything. It also had preselections I didn't know how to delete. Nov 26, 2015 at 16:33