Font Management On Linux

Many new-to-Linux users have questions about installing fonts and previewing fonts on Linux. While there are some nice GUI applications that help with these tasks, you don't actually need to install any extra programs to manage your fonts. Everything you need is already installed on your system.

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[bahathir_]

$fc-list | cut -d : -f1

$fc-list | awk -F : '{print $1}'


$fc-list | sed 's/:.*//'

[TangoIndiaMike]

Give this man a medal for not dismissing the "basic questions". Been a long time linux user and pretty new to your channel DT, but I just want to say thank you for producing such high quality linux content.

[kylebriffa]

People use "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" because it contains all the letters of the English alphabet

[Gomotianu]

I was right, wasn't i?

DT is getting more and more noob friendly.

[thingsiplay]

DT gets impressed by the neat little GUI app.
DT: You actually don't need all these nonsense stuff.

[MyReviews_karkan]

All I've ever done is search the font I wanted on the web, download a ttf/otf file and double click it, a window pops up that has an image of how it looks like and a "install" and "cancel" on the title bar, hit "install" if I liked it or "cancel" if I didn't. After that I'd go and change to it from the settings. Never knew about "font managers" nor the terminal. Honestly. Lol
Edit: just realized that I've been watching your videos for a while without subbing. Haha
You've got a new sub, sir.

[sophosvanalles]

You should compile a bunch of these basic out of the box scripts for new users as "intro packs". New users have now idea how to use Linux without reliance on 3rd party apps (I'm pretty new myself) and would really benefit from a pack of nice clean scripts.

[DirkDittmar]

Great lesson of what you can do out of the box without fancy GUI apps! Just look what is in your box and learn the magic of the terminal!

[anandrajaram]

Are you kidding me dt? I had just installed arch linux from scratch, and wanted to change my font to a better one, but I couldn't, so I decided to live with my bad font. And holy goddamn moly, I see you upload a linux font management video. Did you just read my mind?

[rawjam]

Thanks DT, Interesting stuff as always! I've been a Nubie for the past 10 yrs, Haven't needed to do anything with fonts, Maybe i just want an OS that works! However there's a lot of folk that seems to know better, Is there some sort of intellectual competition going on, With some jobs worth!
Anyhow I like your content, I'm learning from it!

[damiencalloway]

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy (yellow) dog. I learned this with the word yellow, but you can actually leave that out and still get a sentence where each letter appears at least once

[aehjr]

Nicely done, thanks. You just reminded me one more thing to do on my new PC...install additional fonts.

[lawrencedoliveiro]

7:38 This is where the fc-match command can come in useful, e.g.

fc-match space file family

looks for the font which best matches a name like “space”, and lists its full filename and its actual family name.

[thundreturtle]

You did explain everything but one needs a lot of preknowladge to follow the video.
It is by no means noob friendly :D

[davidepierrat]

Have not even watched the video yet, but thank you so much I needed this soo much <3 really appreciate your work sir, respects

[lawrencedoliveiro]

14:47 Alternatively, it would be handy to be able to ellipsize the long names on the left rather than the right.

[bobgrimes]

I have always installed ms core fonts ever since I got into Linux in 2008.

[DannyMexen]

On a clean install, I install power line patched fonts and ms core fonts.

[toungewithgills]

Thank you for the videos. They are very useful.

I am a long time Windows user.

Haven't decided on Linux Mint with Cinnamon or go with Rocky Linux.

Although I want to use either for a DHCP, DNS, LDAP. Kea with Stork, Power DNS, Open Ldap. For a home network. I am stumped how to install the Programs into the Operating System or finding the distros in the repository.

I am CLI illiterate presently. Thanks for the videos.

[rayanez]

I've been using Linux on and off for years (10+), and now Manjaro is my daily driver; I've done shell scripting on AIX, some perl scripting, I've installed different distros allong the way, and I'm confortable using the terminal, but I'm a developer not a sysadmin, and I have to confess that I've used Linux as a tool and I haven't tinker a lot with it, so there are a lot of things that DT does that I've never done that make me feel like a complete noob to Linux