Chris Pitzer » web-development http://blog.christopherpitzer.com web development, games, business, optimism Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:50:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Ubuntu’s crappie fonts http://blog.christopherpitzer.com/2008/ubuntus-crappie-fonts/ http://blog.christopherpitzer.com/2008/ubuntus-crappie-fonts/#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:41:02 +0000 Christopher Pitzer http://blog.christopherpitzer.com/?p=19 If you develop websites on Ubuntu, you may have noticed the horrible fonts it uses.  You want Times New Roman?  It gives you some quasi Courier-New mutant.  Microsoft’s Truetype fonts, though free, are not open source, so Ubuntu cannot offer them as part of its default package.

You can, however, install them yourself.

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

That’s it!  Reboot your browser and you will now see fonts (at least the common ones) the way the rest of the world does.

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