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Fonts 🔤

Installing Fonts in Linux: article

Install Font Manager from the Software Store

Font type	Location
User fonts	~/.fonts/ or ~/.local/share/fonts/
System fonts	/usr/local/share/fonts/
Google Fonts (via Font Manager)	~/.var/app/org.gnome.FontManager/data/fonts/Google\ Fonts

In some cases, the Google Fonts downloaded by Font Manager aren’t detected by the application, so you can symlink that directory within your user fonts location:

ln -s ~/.var/app/org.gnome.FontManager/data/fonts/Google\ Fonts ~/.fonts/GoogleFonts

Updating the font-cache (add -v for verbose output):

fc-cache -f

List installed fonts:

fc-list | sort -f

You can see name of my downloaded User fonts list as well as Google fonts list

NerdFonts

NerdFonts GitHub page

You can preview programming fonts as well as download them from the NerdFonts download page

Another popular repository is Powerline fonts

My favorite programming fonts

Font	Installation
0xProto	Download latest release zip from their Github
Geist by Vercel	Download Geist and GeistMono latest release zips from their Github
FiraCode	Refer their Linux install guide
CodeNewRoman	NerdFont Downloads
Cascadia Code by Microsoft	Download latest release zip from their Github

I save all the .zip font downloads into ~/Downloads/Font-Downloads/ folder. Then, extract them all at once in ~/.fonts/ into their respective folders via:

mkdir -p ~/.fonts
for fontzip in ~/Downloads/Font-Downloads/*.zip; do unzip -qo $fontzip -d ~/.fonts/$(basename $fontzip .zip); done

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Installing Fonts in Windows

• Download the zips from respective sources and place all in Font-Download folder within your Downloads

• In windows, System fonts are stored in C:\Windows\Fonts and User fonts in C:\Users\kumar\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts (note that User fonts folder might not exist)

• So the tweaked script to extract contents of zips into respective folders in User fonts folder is as following. Run it in git-bash terminal:

  mkdir -p ~/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Fonts
  for fontzip in ~/Downloads/Font-Downloads/*.zip; do unzip -qo $fontzip -d ~/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Fonts/$(basename $fontzip .zip); done
  

• To register fonts in Windows, open PowerShell as Admin and run below commands. It recursively traverses your Fonts folder and registers all .ttf and .otf font files under Windows Registry keys:

  # Register TrueType Font (.ttf) files. Press Enter to continue
  Get-ChildItem -Recurse "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts" -Filter *.ttf | ForEach-Object {
    $fontPath = $_.FullName
    $fontName = $_.BaseName
    reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" /v "$fontName (TrueType)" /t REG_SZ /d "$fontPath" /f
  }
  
  # Register OpenType Font (.otf) files. Press Enter to continue
  Get-ChildItem -Recurse "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts" -Filter *.otf | ForEach-Object {
    $fontPath = $_.FullName
    $fontName = $_.BaseName
    reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" /v "$fontName (OpenType)" /t REG_SZ /d "$fontPath" /f
  }
  

• Restart computer. Then check in Fonts in Control Panel