About a month ago (actually 9 October which is about) I became aware of the Google's Noto font collection (free to a good home).
This is not about problems (there have not been any); it's about what I do with fonts in hope that maybe somebody else can take advantage of Google's generosity.
You go to
https://www.google.com/get/noto/ and download individual fonts or click on Download All Fonts (it's a red box on the page, easy to see). "All" is 442 fonts.
I unpack them into
/usr/local/share/fonts/opentype/noto (Google wants them in
opentype/noto, fine with me).
I have directories of fonts in
/usr/local/share/fonts; the Adobe Type Library, a set of Interstate fonts, MSfonts, myfonts and opentype. I've had Adobe Type Library for... uh, about 25 years, MSfonts just because the world seems to demand Arial (which I hate), myfonts that are specialty fonts like AngloSaxon, DS_Celtic, Tolkien, and hieroglyhic.
I install add-on fonts in the
/usr/local/share/fonts tree because I do not like to mix add-on with system fonts (those that come with Slackware). So, the "natural" place to put the Google fonts is where they're installed in
/usr/local/share/fonts I think.
All the fonts require running
mkfontscale followed by
mkfontdir; no biggie, they're all scalable and you need to do that. Those create
fonts.scale and
fonts.dir in the fonts directory.
You also need to let the system know where they are. You do that by adding
/etc/fonts/local.conf; it looks like this:
Code:
cat /etc/fonts/local.conf
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file to configure system font access -->
<fontconfig>
<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts/Adobe</dir>
<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts/MSfonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts/myfonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts/Interstate</dir>
<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts/opentype/noto</dir>
</fontconfig>
You want to run
/usr/bin/fc-cache -f to update the X font indexes; you won't see the add-on fonts until you do that (
fc-cache is run at boot).
These are not console fonts, they're for X and OpenOffice/LibreOffice and anything that can use them.
I'm kind of a font freak (does anybody really need 442 Noto fonts or 439 Adobe fonts?). Well, shame on me but I actually do use many of them (well, maybe 10% of them truth be known) and they're spun out to all my systems, don't take that much space, they're nice have when you need them and they work just fine with LibreOffice and my printers and monitors.
So, anyway, if you're interested the Noto fonts are quite nicely done, free and a nice collection to have on hand.
Hope this helps some.
