I just installed my Windows fonts like I normally do(/usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts). I did sudo fc-cache -f -v and restarted. When I logged on and went too Google there were no fonts on the page. I tried other websites such as this forum, Neowin and Bing. All didn't have fonts. FontyPython said "Font may be bad and cannot be drawn."
I have accidentally deleted some of the fonts from /usr/share/fonts folder. They must have been crucial since now I have various display problems ( underscore and font size display ).
I have already tried resetting gnome and system fonts settings but it does not solve the problem.
I used a font manager on Mac OS X, for additional fonts in my graphic design projects without installing them to the fonts folder (I think that's how it works) - using Font Book and Font Explorer X Version 1.2.3 on OS X 10.6.
Most fonts work fine, but Interstate has a problem:
Interstate Regular is installed, but for some reason it's probably not seeing it; it's seeing all the Bold and Condense
I am using Firefox 19 at the moment. As of Firefox 18 or even earlier, I noticed that bold fonts on some pages look horrible and unreadable.
For example, go to this link.
In my Firefox 19, the page looks like this
How can I fix this so that those unreadable fonts become readable again?
I guess the Ubuntu is in some kind of collision with TTF or similar fonts.
$ fc-list | sed 's,:.*,,' | sort -ulists everything except Type1 directory contents.Meanwhile fc-cache searches and caches /usr/share/fonts/Type1$ xlsfonts|grep nimbus shows the font.% xset q
/.../
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/share/fonts/local/,/usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/
You seem to have quite a few fonts from the AUR. I have no idea if it would help, but I know I would try removing the 'ttf-unifrakture' package.As I wrote above, I don't use Gnome so my suggestions could be very wrong. Are you using a custom theme, from outside the main repos? Do you have the DejaVu fonts installed so that there's a sane fallback to match any
Ubuntu comes with a few fonts, but the list is not really all that exhaustive. Certainly anyone doing any sort of creative work will eventually need to install additional fonts. There are thousands of free fonts available, although you might be mistaken that they are for Windows and MacOS only. This is not the case - installing fonts in Ubuntu is actually quite easy.
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I copied a bunch of .ttf and otf fonts into ~/.fonts, made sure permissions where set to my user/group and ran fc-cache ~/.fonts.
Opened up GIMP and Geany but the fonts aren't available. Any idea what's up?
How can I get the list of available fonts?
I would be nicer if I did not have to depend on something huge.
My solution so far is to list the directory /usr/share/fonts on linux and C:\Windows\Fonts on windows. Is this the right way to do that?
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