How to set up various fonts I like and use on Ubuntu Linux computers

  • Use the install_source-pro_font.sh script from resources/computers/fonts/ to install a bunch of Adobe fonts. For convenience only, the current version of the script is reproduced below

     1#!/bin/bash
 2mkdir /tmp/adobefont
 3cd /tmp/adobefont
 4mkdir -p ~/.fonts
 5
 6wget https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/archive/2.030R-ro/1.050R-it.zip
 7unzip 1.050R-it.zip
 8cp source-code-pro-2.030R-ro-1.050R-it/OTF/*.otf ~/.fonts/
 9
10wget https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-serif-pro/archive/2.000R.zip
11unzip 2.000R.zip
12cp source-serif-pro-2.000R/OTF/*.otf ~/.fonts/
13
14wget https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans-pro/archive/2.020R-ro/1.075R-it.zip
15unzip 1.075R-it.zip
16cp source-sans-pro-2.020R-ro-1.075R-it/OTF/*.otf ~/.fonts/
17
18wget https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-serif/releases/download/4.004R/source-serif-4.004.zip
19unzip source-serif-4.004.zip
20cp source-serif-4.004/OTF/*.otf ~/.fonts/
21
22wget https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans/releases/download/3.046R/OTF-source-sans-3.046R.zip
23unzip OTF-source-sans-3.046R.zip
24cp OTF/*.otf ~/.fonts/
25
26fc-cache -f -v

  • sudo apt install fonts-firacode

    • The universe repo needs to be enabled in sources.list. (The contrib repo for Debian)

  • There are also a bunch of folders with .ttf fonts in resources/computers/fonts/. Install them with

    • find . -name \*.ttf -exec cp -v {} ~/.fonts/ \;
    • fc-cache -f -v