Comments on: How to get gorgeous looking fonts on Linux Mint

By: Silver Moon

Silver Moon — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 05:24:31 +0000

In reply to tatariw. glad to know that it worked on Debian.

By: Silver Moon

Silver Moon — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 05:23:48 +0000

In reply to Piatra. thanks for mentioning the correct package

By: Piatra

Piatra — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 05:01:37 +0000

In reply to Guy Wood. `sudo apt-get install fonts-droid-fallback fonts-noto`

By: Guy Wood

Guy Wood — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:46:52 +0000

I ran the command and it ended with: Package ‘fonts-droid’ has no installation candidate

Any ideas, I’ve only being using Linux Mint for about 10 minutes..?

By: Muller

Muller — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 15:25:28 +0000

Thank you , this is amazing advice and tips that help my old eyes

By: tatariw

tatariw — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:28:37 +0000

Perfect. This was what I was looking for. It works like a charm on Debian 8 mate.

By: Wale David

Wale David — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:55:45 +0000

Good Stuff @OP. Helped

By: Bo Xu

Bo Xu — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 07:30:54 +0000

Typecatcher is a extremely handy tool. thank you.

By: Silver Moon

Silver Moon — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:19:53 +0000

In reply to Tom. Installing the font packages will not cause any harm. They just install font files. You can avoid the step that involves configuring the fonts.conf file.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:04:58 +0000

The author either needs to rename this article to reflect the versions of Mint it will work on, or remove the article.

I now have a messed up X server system because of this article.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:52:00 +0000

None of the fonts.conf files exist in those locations on LinuxMint 17….

By: gible

gible — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:05:00 +0000

~/.fonts.conf is or will be deprecated (depends on your OS versions) ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf is the future proof path.

By: j@q

j@q — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:26:00 +0000

Incredible, thank you.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 02:25:00 +0000

Thanks a lot sir, you just saved my life!

By: Henry Otero

Henry Otero — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:42:00 +0000

Instead of Noto, for web, use Arimo (Liberation Sans), Tinos (Liberation Serif), and Cousine (Liberation Mono).

By: David

David — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:23:00 +0000

Works like a charm, however I wanted to revert the changes. Apparently, simply removing the .fonts.conf doesn’t do the trick. I did not change any font settings in the Mint font settings and my browsers font settings.
Do you have any idea, how to revert the changes applied by the .fonts.conf?
I am using Mint 17 Cinnamon.

By: amikkwe

amikkwe — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 01:30:00 +0000

I have a question. I followed this tutorial and the results were amazing. Thank you. However earlier today I add ed several ttf fonts to my system and after that I am now having several things inside of my google chrome browser showing the helvetica font instead of my serif and sans fonts, even though chrome still shows them as my chosen fonts in the settings. I just checked same thing in firefox as well. I do not have helvetica chosen in any of the settings you said to change, followed it exactly. They were all correct before I added the new ttf fonts to my system font folder. Do you have any idea why this would happen or how to fix it?

By: Marcos Weht

Marcos Weht — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:32:00 +0000

Has anyone noticed that the “!” (exclamation symbol) has the dot and the line very close to each other and it looks like a lowercase “L”?

By: Western Sudan (غرب السودان)

Western Sudan (غرب السودان) — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 13:29:00 +0000

Thanksssssssssssssssssssss man Thanksssssssssss

By: unyk

unyk — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 06:46:00 +0000

That xml file makes all the difference.. Thanks