How to Install and Manage Fonts on Linux

Want to install your favorite font on Linux but not sure how to do it? In this video, I'll go over the simple process of installing fonts, uninstalling fonts, managing fonts, setting the default font, and previewing fonts, all from the command line. No longer do you need to install a bunch of BLOATED graphical programs on your pristine Arch Linux setup...

0:00 Intro
0:38 Installing fonts
3:13 Uninstalling fonts
3:21 Installing fonts system-wide
5:17 Finding the name and style of your font for terminal applications
7:27 Setting the default font
11:13 Previewing fonts
12:43 Conclusion

[occultsupport]

I swear your wallpapers get cleaner every video 😩

[helloimatapir]

Great video Eric. I actually never knew about the :file option in fc-list.

Also, a tip. I noticed your grep output is not coloured. I highly recommend adding this option to your zshrc. It makes spotting differences a lot easier.

[samoylov]

Just an idea for one of future videos: "How to clean Gimp from unwanted weird fonts". In every distribution Gimp comes with some huge trash-font collection that rarely someone uses.

[spartv]

bro just casually shows up terraria font and thought i won't notice

[JohnMassaglia]

Thanks, I was still using ~/.fonts and didn't notice that the location had changed.

[SIMULATAN]

Hey eric, do you by chance also have the issue with super choppy and pixelated text rendering in some apps (like libreoffice)?
If yes, could you maybe make a video on how to mitigate that?
Thanks!

[VictoriaMan]

Thanks, I just watched another video yesterday and dude said to use .fonts in the .config folder so this is great info.

[piercerose]

It wont let me do anything to my font folder I cant drag the font or use the command

[nymnicholas]

Very Cool and helpful. Thanks, will try later on my Arch. Maybe other distro don't follow the same rules, but then again, it's a Choice we make. All Distros are Family. Peace :-)

[pleaseenteraname]

I just copy and paste whole font dir in usr from one past installation

[StopTheNewWorldOrder]

1:19 That's the font from Terraria.

[samarthnagar]

I encountered this problem when I tried to run nvim and tmux man it's hard and dreadfull

[tomw]

"Deprecated." Good video, Eric.

[Proferk]

I think you should clean up your home directory (using a tool like xdg-ninja)

[expiredramen]

eric whats your thoughts on mullvad browser?

[jabahunter]

replace the default font with among us font on amogOS

[vukanoa]

Once I try:
$sudo pacman -S fontpreview
It says:"error:target not found:fontpreview".

I'm using Manjaro, but it's still pacman, so I'm confused.

Anyway, thanks for great videos. I've been waching your last 10 and rthey were really helpful. Thanks. Keep up the good work. Greetings from Serbia.