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Install Google Fonts on Ubuntu

Install Google Fonts

Download desired fonts

https://fonts.google.com/?selection.family=Open+Sans

Install Google Fonts on Ubuntu

cd /usr/share/fonts
sudo mkdir googlefonts
cd googlefonts
sudo unzip -d . ~/Downloads/Open_Sans.zip
sudo chmod -R --reference=/usr/share/fonts/opentype /usr/share/fonts/googlefonts

Register fonts

sudo fc-cache -fv

Check if font installed

fc-match OpenSans

Bibliography

http://www.binarytides.com/gorgeous-looking-fonts-ubuntu-linux
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/05/manually-install-fonts-ubuntu-16-04

@mikealche
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Amazing thanks! Just remember you need to cd into googlefonts before unzipping!
Best regards!

@monners
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monners commented Dec 13, 2017

Thanks!
you might wanna update your gist to point to the download url, rather than the reference page, and specify the name of the file you expect, otherwise you'll get query string junk (for open sans that'd be: wget -O Open_Sans.zip https://fonts.google.com/download?family=Open%20Sans)

@andersonid
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great... thanks

@SushiStar
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Really helpful

@speeddragon
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Very useful!

@amoghkalyanshetti
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Thank you very much !

@tarjei
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tarjei commented Jul 31, 2018

Thanks for this!
The install part is better written as:

cd /usr/share/fonts 
sudo mkdir googlefonts
sudo unzip -d . ~/Downloads/fonts.zip 
sudo chmod -R --reference=opentype googlefonts

@tarjei
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tarjei commented Jul 31, 2018

You can also install some of the fonts as packages on newer ubuntu (I'm on 18.04):
sudo apt install fonts-lato fonts-open-sans fonts-roboto fonts-mononoki

@lightonphiri
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Thanks for this!
The install part is better written as:

cd /usr/share/fonts 
sudo mkdir googlefonts
sudo unzip -d . ~/Downloads/fonts.zip 
sudo chmod -R --reference=opentype googlefonts

Thanks. Reformatted gist [...]

@adityatelange
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if you want google_product_sans =>

https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4324851&d=1509979469 and copy
Font_ProductSans2/system/fonts/ to /usr/share/fonts/googlefonts

@bhachauk
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bhachauk commented Jun 8, 2019

I have used typecatcher. i think, worth to mention here.

@dhirajpatra
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Very nice thanks

@morehwachege
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This is fantastic...works on various debian based linux distros swiftly, thank you

@davidajimati
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You can also install some of the fonts as packages on newer ubuntu (I'm on 18.04): sudo apt install fonts-lato fonts-open-sans fonts-roboto fonts-mononoki

this is awesome, it helped me. thanks

@unalignedcoder
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Could I not install new fonts in the user Home folder?

@lcongdanh
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for anyone using WSL2:
sudo unzip -d . /mnt/c/Users/admin/Downloads/Cantarell.zip

@patrickhag
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patrickhag commented Sep 18, 2023

Thanks man!!!

@githubdotcomuser
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You can also install some of the fonts as packages on newer ubuntu (I'm on 18.04): sudo apt install fonts-lato fonts-open-sans fonts-roboto fonts-mononoki

Hey! How do you figure out which of the fonts can be installed this way. I wanted to install the Inter Tight but sudo apt install fonts-inter-tight doesn't seem to work.

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lusdavo commented Dec 31, 2023

Thanks.

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