Installing Fonts in Linux: article
Install Font Manager
| Font type | Location |
|---|---|
| User fonts | ~/.local/share/fonts/ (preferred) or ~/.fonts/ |
| System fonts | /usr/local/share/fonts/ |
| Google Fonts (via Font Manager) | ~/.local/share/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
Updating the font-cache:
# Can add "-v" for verbose ouyput
fc-cache -f
List installed fonts:
fc-list | sort -f
fc-list | grep -i 0xProto
You can see the list of my manually downloaded fonts in the font-names.txt file and the Google fonts in font-names-google.txt file
You can preview programming fonts as well as download them from the NerdFonts download page
Another popular repository is Powerline fonts
The Symbols Nerd Font is a useful font containing just the patched symbols that you can use as a fallback along with your existing non-patched fonts also
| 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 |
| Adwaita | Download latest release from their Gitlab |
| Jetbrains Mono | Download from Jetbrains website |
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
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