Add fonts to your Linux (GoogleWebFonts, UbuntuFonts, VistaFonts)

Often we need to use fonts other than those installed on our computers, whether for graphic design or simply for personal preference. Here are three groups of fonts: those from Windows Vista (Calibri, among others), several from Google Web Fonts , and Ubuntu Fonts . Choose the ones you want:

Windows Vista: Contains 24 files (3.2 MB).

GoogleWebFonts: Contains 722 files (51.9 Mb).

UbuntuFonts: Contains 26 files (6 MB).

To install them in the system we do the following:

We open a terminal and access the folder where the .zip file is located, example:

cd /home/perseo/Descargas

Unzip the file, example:

unzip Vista.zip

We move the folder to / usr / share / fonts, example:

sudo mv /home/perseo/Descargas/Vista /usr/share/fonts

We make sure that the folder has the proper permissions, example:

sudo chown -R root:root /usr/share/fonts/Vista

And we update the source cache:

sudo fc-cache -fv

Ready, we can make use of them;).


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