Questions tagged [fonts]
A font is an entire set of glyphs that make up a typeface. Installing a font allows the user to use that font in order to change the appearance of text on an output device such as a screen or printer.
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How to install calibri font into debian 12?
I need for my php excel creator library, the Calibri font.
I tried installing this: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ttf-mscorefonts-installer
But it has not installed the calibri
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Does a Truetype version of the Fixed Misc bitmap font exist?
Does there exist a Truetype version of this font?
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Wrong font colour in GNOME's Application menu while in dark mode
I installed GNOME Tweaks through the Pop Shop to play around with the customizability.
Under Appearance>Themes>Applications I tried switching it to some of the other preinstalled themes. But ...
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How to use PostScript Type 1 font in Inkscape Linux?
I am trying to use the font msbm10.pfb given by https://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/amsfonts/pfb (which is a PostScript Type 1 font by the file command) in (flatpak) Inkscape in Linux. Trying to ...
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change gtk-2 font only for specific application
I have changed general font size for gtk-2 applications by adding this to my gtkrc file:
gtk-font-name = "Sans 16"
this also affected the text size in the application "dock", or ...
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/usr/share/fonts/IBM_Plex_Mono: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
I have install latex 2013(small installation) into alpine and run it in docker, when I tried to using this command to show alpine font list:
/usr/share/fonts/IBM_Plex_Serif # fc-list
the output is ...
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Does Chrome on Linux use its own font subpixel smoothing settings?
I am using an LCD TV as my monitor. In Mate settings I can change the subpixel order to BGR to get a better subpixel smoothing. However, I notice that some applications are using their own subpixel ...
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Default monospace font in Qt applications
In the file ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf i have set monospace to DejaVuSansMono:
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer><family>DejaVuSansMono</family>&...
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Why does Arch's libcairo grayscale antialiasing, when Ubuntu's uses subpixel?
SciTE uses Cairo. On Ubuntu, it uses subpixel antialiasing, which I like.
But unfortunately, on Arch Linux, it uses grayscale antialiasing, which I find too blurry for me.
I already spent hours ...
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Proper Devanagari (Sanskrit) ligatures in Terminal (Arch-based System)
My terminal is not able to display complex Devanagari (Sanskrit) ligatures properly. It is able to display the letters and certain ligatures, but not the complex ones. Similar as described here, here ...
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Converting non-English manual pages to PDF/PostScript
I'm trying to convert manual pages containing either Japanese or Russian characters to the PDF/PostScript formats. I'm doing it with the following commands.
man -Tpdf /usr/share/man/ja/man1/vim.1.gz &...
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How to fix missing font(s) affecting friendly-recovery menu screen appearance?
Test installs of Debian 12 where I've installed friendly-recovery sometimes look like this:
instead of having a nice ASCII box drawn around the menu.
Some of the test installs don't look like this - ...
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I am using raspberry pi 4 , raspbian os. I can't print or type Combined indic fonts properly. But in window os it's working properly
name_hindi = "अभिव्यक्त करना"
name_gujrati = "વ્યક્ત"
print(name_gujrati+name_hindi)
// '''this both hindi and Gujarati combined font not print or display properly in raspberry pi ...
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clock font in conky
I'm wanting to give the font for my digital clock in conky an outter edge thats a different color. I'm not sure how to go about it though. The pic is an example of what I'm wanting to do.
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How can I fix font issue with a PDF file?
I have a PDF file (this Mazda owner's manual to be precise) with font issues. Therefore I cannot search within. For instance, if you search for the word electric, Okular cannot find it (I've also ...
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How should I interpret the fact that a Unicode code point is shown in two completely different ways in two different terminal emulators?
This is kind of a spin off from an older question I asked.
Here's the screenshot from that question:
In the bottom left is URxvt, and you can see a lighting bolt-like icon at the beginning of the ...
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Pixelated japanese characters on NixOS
I recently installed NixOS 22.11, with Gnome desktop environment, but all japanese characters look pixelated, like shown in the picture:
My configuration file is as follows:
fonts = {
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Browsers use monospace font for the ui (tabs, settings etc.)
After updating my system (Arch linux x64) and installing some font packages, (I'm unsure what exactly caused this issue) all of my browsers (chromium, firefox, librewolf) started using the default ...
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How to add a system font to LibreOffice Writer?
My Linux system is using Monospace Regular to display Monospace Text. I would like to try the font in my documents. However when I go through my long list of fonts it is not there. How can I make it ...
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I have a problem in font rendering in linux terminal
I am using this font named laconic on my linux terminal. I am facing two problems here. The first problem is that there is a big space between my username@machine and command input area.
Secondly ...
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Why are nerdfont icons differently sized in the same line?
I'm trying since quite a while to figure out, why these icons (see picture) are different in size. The status bar is dwmblocks by suckless (including simple bashscripts for the infos in the line) and ...
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Terminus (or any other bitmap font) blurry on HiDPI
I'm using an UHD screen and have everything set to be 2x scaled (Cinnamon DE, Arch Linux).
I would like to use a bitmap font that is not anti-aliased, i. e. pixelated, for my terminal emulator (gnome-...
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How to safely remove noto fonts in Debian?
Is there a way to safely remove noto-fonts from the system? They were installed by some package automatically, but they make it horrible to select fonts in any program, as about 1800 of the possible ...
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How to de-blur Wayland fractional scaling
As far as I understand, all fonts, like SVG, are vector representation, so they scale infinitely well. But here are two magnified "S" characters of the same size, from LibreOffice Writer.
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Change the font family with a shortcut in XTerm
I'm trying to change the font family on the fly (with a shortcut) in XTerm. At the moment I can change the font size. I tried to do this with the action set-render-font(), but I'm not sure if it's the ...
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How do I list the meta-data in a font file?
I have some font file (specifically, a TrueType, .tff, file) which I want to examine. I can run:
file myfont.ttf
and get something like:
TrueType Font data, 15 tables, 1st "OS/2", 24 names, ...
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Display emoji in tty or fbterm?
I am working with an old Raspberry Pi that only has text mode. Distro is Raspberry Pi OS based on Debian 11. By default the emoji characters only print as white diamond shapes in tty; in fbterm they ...
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System font are not available in Libreoffice
Gnome is set to use Monospace Regular for Monospace Text. However when I open Libreoffice Writer that is bundled with my distribution, I cannot select that font in the GUI. How can I make the font ...
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All text Arabic in my browsers turned to be very small and thin - Ubuntu 22.04
Arabic font was nice when installed Ubuntu 22.04, like it was the default one, but today it turned to the one below
You can see the difference between English and Arabic in smoothing
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How to write regular expression for apt-get so that it excludes package conflicts?
I am trying to install all packages that contain font in their name. I tried apt-get install *font* but packages fontforge and fontforge-nox conflict each other. How should I revise my regex so that ...
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Am I reading the font information incorrectly, or does this font not support a character?
I list here an installed font that supports the character 05D0:
$ fc-list :charset=05d0 | tail -n1/usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoSansHebrew-Bold.ttf: Noto Sans Hebrew:style=Bold
I then list the ...
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Console font not found?
I am getting an error when I update Arch linux which is "Console font not found". However, I looked in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts and the font specified is indeed there. Do I need to put it ...
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How to use Fixed family bitmap fonts in fbterm
I work in a text terminal a lot on my Debian 12 box, and I like the bitmap font family it uses, which IIRC is called Fixed. I use vim for pretty much everything, and it works well in this environment.
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How can I disable a specific font style using fontconfig?
I installed the Iosevka font as a TrueType Collection. I would like to disable all the "Oblique" styles, similar to how you can disable a specific font style using Font Book in macOS. Is ...
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Why is the sun12x22 font not included in Debian by default?
When setting the console font in Debian using dpkg-reconfigure console-setup there is no option to select the Sun console font. The font is available on most other Linux distributions, but the Debian ...
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How do I install custom fonts like xfonts on WSL/WSLg for use in GUI apps?
I try to use GUI Apps on Windows 11 via WSL and WSLg. Unfortunately my GUI app needs some custom fonts (specifically xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi). Since WSLg does not include those fonts, my GUI ...
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How do you maintain/configure fonts or icons properly in Linux?
What I've understood with fonts and icons is that when the fonts are installed, and when the fonts used are explicitly specified by the application, the fonts will be correct.
However, with most of ...
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How to make browser call specified font in font-family tag?
Location definition in below discussion:folder name and filename in desktop ,file manager,terminal's ui.
I installed debian and fcitx,fcitx-pinyin(for inputing Chinese character) and copy windows ...
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Can't get URxvt to work with the font "Inter". Using it causes spaces in-between letters
I cannot get the popular Google font "Inter" to work with URxvt. When I set the font, xrdb -merge .Xresources and open a new terminal, it has spaces between the letters l i k e t h i s. ...
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Why can't set font according to language?
OS and desktop environment info:
uname -a
Linux debian 5.10.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.140-1 (2022-09-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux
sudo dpkg -s lxde | grep Version
Version: 11
sudo dpkg -s lxappearance | ...
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Which is the default font for chinese character in debian9 or later?
In my memory the installed debian can't show Chinese character before version debian9 or 8,you have to install fonts for Chinese character otherwise all Tofu would be full of the screen after ...
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Ask a terminal whether a glyph is defined by a font vs. directly in its own source code?
Many modern terminal emulators include definitions for box drawing glyphs directly in their own source code, and disregard the versions provided by the font when rendering the display. Is there a ...
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How to specify Noto Sans CJK SC to render chinese character in my os?
OS and desktop environment info:
uname -a
Linux debian 5.10.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.140-1 (2022-09-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux
sudo dpkg -s lxde | grep Version
Version: 11
sudo dpkg -s lxappearance | ...
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How can set different font for different characters?
OS and desktop info:
uname -a
Linux debian 5.10.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.140-1 (2022-09-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux
sudo dpkg -s lxde | grep Version
Version: 11
sudo dpkg -s lxappearance | grep ...
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Font smoothing issues in flatpak Firefox on KDE
I've been trying to write a script to launch Firefox on the Steam Deck from Gaming Mode. Just launching it directly doesn't work well because of how Steam Deck manages the window, so I wrote a script ...
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font madness on linux desktop
I am using Debian 10. fc-list shows following fonts installed on my system:
$ fc-list | cut -d':' -f2 | sort -u
Bitstream Charter
Century Schoolbook L
Courier 10 Pitch
DejaVu Sans
DejaVu Sans Mono
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I can't change desktop font in Ubuntu Studio 22.04
I've just upgraded my Ubuntu Studio to 22.04. The desktop font is white with a black shadowy outline. Frankly, it's almost illegible, for me at least. There doesn't appear to be any way to change the ...
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Fonts and modern high screen resolutions
A problem I have with my Arch system is that fonts in many applications are too small.
I have a 3480 pixel wide screen that is 27.5" wide, which means that my dpi is about 139, not unusual for a ...
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gtk3: set different font for one application
I know how to set font for all gtk3 applications:
grep font ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
gtk-font-name=Sans 13
but how do I launch an application with different font type or size?
Is there some ...
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How can I determine which fallback font is being used for a given character?
I'm using LibreOffice (7.4.1.2) on Devuan (Daedalus). I've set the right-to-left language group font to some font, let's say it's font family Foo in size 12, regular; and I type a few glyphs in Hebrew ...
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