Installing fonts

Font formats

Font sets used in operating systems are presented in bitmap or outline formats.

Raster fonts (bitmap)

Font formats and letter shapes are created primarily in monochrome raster graphics. A popular example of bitmap fonts are emoji. The following formats are used to create a font collection:

• Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) by Adobe
• Portable Compiled Format (PCB) by Xorg
• PC Screen Font (PSF) is used by the operating system kernel for console fonts and is not supported by Xorg

Outline fonts

The main font format uses Bezier curves (vector graphics) to describe each glyph. The following formats are used to create a font collection:

• TrueType by Apple and Microsoft (file extension: ttf)
• OpenType by Microsoft, built on TrueType (file extensions: otf, ttf)
• PostScript by Adobe - have different formats, for example: Printer Font ASCII (PFA) and Printer Font Binary (PFB)

Installing fonts

There are various methods to install fonts in ALT Regular Gnome operating system

From the repository

To search for fonts hosted by Sisyphus repositories, go to the Fonts section at packages.altlinux.org.

Let's install additional fonts, using google-noto-emoji from the Sisyphus repository as an example:

apt-get

su -
apt-get update
apt-get install fonts-ttf-google-noto-emoji fonts-ttf-google-noto-emoji-color

epm

epm -i fonts-ttf-google-noto-emoji fonts-ttf-google-noto-emoji-color

Local installation (manual)

If there is no font set in the Sisyphus repository, the font set in the ALT Regular Gnome operating system is installed locally.

To easily install fonts, we recommend installing the Fonts program, download the selected fonts and open them in Files:

1. Click on the font file.
2. In the preview of the Fonts program, click the “Install” button

Информация

Fonts are installed for a specific user and are available after installation in the following directory:

~/.local/share/fonts

An alternative option is to install via a terminal. The operating system will recursively search for default paths, ensuring that attached files are found. Example file structure:

/usr/local/share/fonts/
├── otf
│   └── SourceCodeVariable
│   ├── SourceCodeVariable-Italic.otf
│   └── SourceCodeVariable-Roman.otf
└── ttf
    ├── AnonymousPro
    │   ├── Anonymous-Pro-B.ttf
    │   ├── Anonymous-Pro-I.ttf
    │   └── Anonymous-Pro.ttf
    └── CascadiaCode
        ├── CascadiaCode-Bold.ttf
        ├── CascadiaCode-Light.ttf
        └── CascadiaCode-Regular.ttf

Using the example of the font CascadiaCode:

System-wide

su -
cd /home/`user`/Downloads/CascadiaCode-2111.01/ttf
mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/ttf/CascadiaCode/ && cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttf/CascadiaCode/

User-wide

cd ~/Downloads/CascadiaCode-2111.01/ttf
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts/ttf/CascadiaCode/ && cp *.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts/ttf/CascadiaCode/

Fonts from the Sisyphus repository

Title	Description	Package name
Microsoft	Fonts by Microsoft	fonts-ttf-ms
Ubuntu	Fonts by the Ubuntu distribution	fonts-ttf-ubuntu-font-family
Cascadia Code	Fonts by Microsoft, used by VSCode and Windows Terminal	fonts-cascadia-code
Noto Emoji	Fonts meets all your emoji needs, including support for the latest Unicode Emoji Specification	fonts-ttf-google-noto-emoji

Tips and tricks

List of installed fonts

To display a list of installed fonts on the system, use the following command:

fc-list

Refresh the cache of installed fonts on the system

fc-cache -f -v