Questions tagged [fonts]
Questions related to the management, installation and removal of fonts.
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"ttf-mscorefonts-installer" Dependency Question [closed]
Apologies if I'm in the wrong place, but I've been through this several times now in other places, and was ultimately pointed here. So here goes...
Maybe I'm the exception to the norm here, but I have ...
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Accidently uninstalled git... Receiving error code
So I was doing an oh my zshell installation on my Ubuntu 22.04 LTS terminal using this guide (https://itsfoss.com/zsh-ubuntu/). But unfortunately, I had accidently uninstalled zsh, git and fonts-font-...
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Bad CJK font rendering only of tabs of Firefox Snap (Ubuntu 23.04)
CJK Fonts are not looking correct but only on tabs/headerbar of the Firefox Snap as of Ubuntu 23.04. Inside the actual page, the fonts are correct as shown in the picture below:
bad rendering of CJK ...
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Weird font on GitHub website in Firefox
I am using Ubuntu 20.04. Why is GitHub website showing unusual fonts when I open it in Firefox? It works well in Chrome. Compare the below two images. One is from Chrome and the other is from Firefox.
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23.04 : how change font in interface, gnome-shell, window title bar?
might sound obvious, but I can't manage to change font in lunar lobster interface.
In previous versions I used to do it with gnome-tweaks, to change font from Ubuntu to Ubuntu Condensed.
Today it ...
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How can I add social icons in LibreOffice document?
I need social icons eg a pin icon for location, a LinkedIn icon, and a phone icon. I know that I can add special characters by clicking on insert > special characters and then choosing symbols ...
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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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How can I change desktop/system font size in Ubuntu using commands?
This is really silly but a computer from my classroom has got its font changed to a huge (ridiculous) one. The icons are insanely big and there's no way to navigate through any program, not even ...
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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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Character/font rendering in chromium-browser
buggy font, correct font, more buggy font
I've been building some single purpose kiosks using Ubuntu server on RaspberyPis (models 3 and 4). It's a minimal build that uses matchbox-window-manager and ...
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Install the old version of the Ubuntu font
The Ubuntu font was redesigned to be thinner and, to my eyes, it is harder to read than the old one (yet the bold version looks extra chunky now?). This new thinner version is was introduced in Ubuntu ...
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`fontinst` process running amok with KDE font management
I have use the KDE font management to disable (when I could) or delete (when I couldn't disable) about two hundred useless fonts (most Noto exotic variants, for a start). I noticed that I refined the ...
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Why Do Some Fonts Only Appear To Load For Some Users And Not Others
I downloaded a truetype font from here: https://github.com/Templarian/MaterialDesign-Font/blob/master/MaterialDesignIconsDesktop.ttf
I tried installing it in /usr/local/share/fonts/...
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How to set a path font in a ubuntu server wihtout GUI?
I've been searching how to do this and all awnsers that I can find are using some kind of UI. I'm pretty sure that is a way to do this just by some commands but I couldn't find it yet.
What i did so ...
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Creating colour fonts using Ubuntu 22.04
I see a few options to convert whatever we throw in as a font glyph for Windows. Is there anything similar we can use for Ubuntu?
The above image is from FontSelf Maker
I have FontForge, but it has ...
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Kubuntu failed to display "Noto Color Emoj" Fonts
I installed fonts "Noto Color Emoj", but it does not displayed in KDE.
When apply them to apps, the fonts are invisible.(Kubuntu 22.10
neofetch --stdout
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Pixelated font on the external monitor
Today I bought a monitor and faced the problem of a strange image display on it
Fonts in all programs look very sharp and pixelated (it hurts my eyes to look at them)
I've tried setting antialiasing ...
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Awful subpixel colour bleeding on Firefox for Ubuntu 22.04
I am running Ubuntu 22.04 on a Lenovo Slim 7 laptop. All works fine. But on external monitors, below a certain font size, Firefox insists on aggressive sub pixel rendering which bleeds RGB all over ...
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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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Tiny font in Libre Writer
I'm running Kubuntu 22.04, and I've set my font to Liberation 12 pt. Everything on my screen is in a large font -- except for the text I'm trying to create, which appears in a tiny font. I've used ...
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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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How to get ttf/otf of a default font?
I found a font that I would like to use on my website and it turns out that this is a default font that comes with Ubuntu. As it comes with Ubuntu, it is installed as a .deb package and after ...
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I lost national signs after OS update
I have home server with Ubuntu Server 20.04. I used to have fonts with polish signs in console. But after some OS update I notice that I have some quirks in the places expected to have polish signs.
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What is the font used by Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer?
I have Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer installed on my Kubuntu 20.04.5 OS. When I want to uninstall an old kernel it gives me an unreadable output ( see picture ). I think it uses a font that I have ...
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How can you disable font dpi settings on a specific widget on KDE?
I'm running the Wunderground plasmoid on KUbuntu and I have the Font DPI setting checked and set for 141 DPI which matches my screen, but as a result it blows the UI of the widget up because of the ...
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How to remove standards fonts named: Sans, Serif, Monospace
On Ubuntu 22.04 there a several fonts named in standard ways: Sans, Serif, Monospace. Here an example from Google Chrome
I want completely remove this names from a system, how i do that? There no ...
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Kannada Font not using the font I suggest
I have a file 10-sub.conf which I'm using to substitute font for specific locales:
(made using this answer)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"&...
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How can I enable firacode ligature on gnome-terminal?
I have installed firacode from sudo apt install fonts-firacode as instructed here(https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Linux-instructions#installing-with-a-package-manager) and selected in the ...
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Netsurf-fb Unable to initialise the font system error
When I try run /usr/bin/netsurf-fb I get the following error after clicking to place the netsurf browser in my X environment:
Unable to initialise the font system
Running verbosely (netsurf-fb -v) ...
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AppImage menu font size too smalll
Menu font in Audacity AppImage recently installed in Lubuntu 22.10 is almost unreadable because too small. Similar questions have not received satisfactory answers in the past. Tweaks does fix title ...
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Text missing from main titlebar & menus in Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
The old issue we had in 18.04 and 20.04 seems to be back:
Text in UI Menus and titlebar goes missing, again.
The sudo fc-cache -r thing doesn't seem to do the job this time, though.
Question: how can ...
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Why any style of any font is rendering?
I was installing a font family and then I realized that there is no change when I go for example from regular to bold style, even with the default Ubuntu font family, I can see the changes going from ...
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How to install one Arabic font for serif and another Arabic font for sans-serif on Ubuntu 22.10?
I want Ubuntu 22.10 to display serif Arabic text in the Noto Naskh Arabic typeface while sans-serif Arabic text in the Noto Sans Arabic typeface.
How can I make Ubuntu install a default Arabic font ...
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ucblogo doesn't execute startup.lg
Trying to solve
Starting issue with UCBLogo
by adding a startup.lg file with the command "setfont [Sans Regular]" included, ucblogo doesn't execute it on startup though I put it into logolib ...
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Monospace font is not recognized as a monospace font
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS and installed a monospace font called mononoki which is defined as a monospace font on the website. http://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/
I can see the font is installed and ...
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Install transitional package or real package?
When should installing transitional or "real" packages be preferred?
In my case, should I install fonts-ubuntu (real package) or ttf-ubuntu-font-family (transitional package)?
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UI font underline
Image see here
Why this fonts are underline ? How can I disable this ?
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How to change the default facing font for a language in Ubuntu 22.10?
I'm no fan of the Arabic interface font on Ubuntu, and I would like to change it. However, I don't readily see any option to do that.
How can I change the default font for a particular language (like ...
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ssh -X to connect with remote client
I try to use "ssh -X -p port username@ip_address" to login remote client.As you can see,I can use my local screen to open remote GNU application because of "-X".
Unfortunately I ...
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GTK4 app fonts very large in other window managers
When I open gtk4 gnome apps (ex. calculator) in other wm's (ex. openbox) the interface font is very large.
Any way to make it smaller? I'm on Ubuntu 22.10.
Thanks.
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How to preserve italic font when exporting Inkscape SVG to EPS on Ubuntu 20.04?
On Ubuntu 20.04, whenever I export an Inkscape (1.2) SVG drawing containing italic text to EPS, the result contains only straight text. I've tried exporting with "Embed fonts" selected, and ...
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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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How can I remove all fonts except for defaults?
I would like to know if I could do a hard reset on the installed fonts in Ubuntu without having to remember exactly which ones I installed and manually delete them one by one.
I did a lot of messing ...
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Broken Mozilla Firefox - No text displays - Font issue?
I am using Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS (5.4.0-128-generic #144-Ubuntu SMP x86_64).
Yesterday after an apt update && apt upgrade, Firefox installed from apt install firefox in the past, started ...
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How to set Notepad++ GUI text to a bigger font?
I installed Notepad++ on my Ubuntu 22.04 via terminal
sudo snap install notepad-plus-plus
However, the text of the UI buttons, tabs, dropdown menues (not the opened file text), is too small compared ...
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Installing Noto Emoji font
It's easy to install the Noto Color Emoji font on Ubuntu:
apt-get install fonts-noto-color-emoji
But there doesn't seem to be a package for the non-Color Noto Emoji font? How to install this on ...
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showing squares instead of folder name characters while saving in attachment in bluemail
Because of the beautiful design, I prefer to use Bluemail as my email client, everything is fine and working, but when I want to save an attachment to my folders, it shows meaningless squares instead ...
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How to add MICR Fonts to Ubuntu Server for use in CUPS
I wanted to try printing bank checks from my Ubuntu 18.04 Server. So I downloaded a sample open-source MICR font from https://sandeen.net/GnuMICR/
The idea was to install the font in Ubuntu, and then ...
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How to make snap Firefox use locally installed fonts?
I need to use an intranet app which relies on locally installed fonts for its look, but snap version of Firefox by default doesn't look into user's ~/.fonts. Is there a workaround for that? If not, ...
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Looking for a custom font based ubuntu note taking app
I've recently moved to linux from windows. I've installed ubuntu and using for a few weeks. I do blogging in my native language(bangla). The problem is almost all the note taking apps available in ...
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