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chessnerd
October 16th, 2010, 05:48 PM
It looks awesome, but sadly it's only default in 10.10 and the only public PPAs available are for 10.04 and 9.04. So, I thought I'd help to fix that. Below, you will find the Ubuntu Font Family (regular, bold, italic, and bold italic) with the license as per the terms of the Ubuntu Font License 1.0.

To use it on just your account, you can put it in the folder ~/.fonts (which you may have to make first) or you can put it under /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ if you have root access. Unzip it and make sure the permissions are set to 755 (command: chmod -R 755 ubuntu-font-family) so that you can start using them.

To set up the appearance to match Ubuntu 10.10, you'll need to set all fonts (except monospace) to Ubuntu (bold for window title) and font sizes to 11. Once you do, your system font will look like Ubuntu 10.10's font scheme.

Enjoy!
kaldor
October 16th, 2010, 05:59 PM
Yep.. I've been using these fonts for the last few weeks on LMDE.

Awesome fonts.
billyboy1978
October 16th, 2010, 06:01 PM
Really nice fonts. Thanx
chessnerd
October 16th, 2010, 06:20 PM
Yep.. I've been using these fonts for the last few weeks on LMDE.

Awesome fonts.
The first thing I did when I got 10.10 going on Live USB on my laptop was copy the font files to my SD card so I could use them in 10.04. They're just so bossy. I've got my desktop running 10.04 too and I'm going to add them there. I'm probably going to put them on my Xfce box as well.

Maybe I should put them as the default on Windows. ;)

I'm only half kidding. This font makes Tahoma look pretty sad.
Ctrl-Alt-F1
October 16th, 2010, 06:29 PM
I think it's great that you're sharing them. I just thought it was funny that the first thing you did is make copies of Ubuntu Font, as the first thing I did was change the font back to a regular sans font. lol.
chessnerd
October 16th, 2010, 06:53 PM
I think it's great that you're sharing them. I just thought it was funny that the first thing you did is make copies of Ubuntu Font, as the first thing I did was change the font back to a regular sans font. lol.
Nice.

The regular Sans font isn't bad, but it just feels somewhat generic because it's the default for a lot of distros. I think the new font looks great while being uniquely Ubuntu.

And I agree, that's pretty funny. :)
MisterGaribaldi
October 16th, 2010, 07:06 PM
Between the new Ubuntu font family and the Android font family, I have to admit I'm rather pleased of late when it comes to fonts in the F/OSS world. Clean, elegant, crisp. Yum!
Mr. Picklesworth
October 16th, 2010, 10:10 PM
Very thoughtful of you to do that!

You can also grab the latest version of these from font.ubuntu.com (http://font.ubuntu.com/) with license information, sources, etc.
Mr. Picklesworth
October 16th, 2010, 10:11 PM
Oops, double posted somehow :)
papangul
October 17th, 2010, 05:17 AM
Another source is http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/ttf-ubuntu-font-family in deb format.
chessnerd
October 17th, 2010, 07:35 AM
You can also grab the latest version of these from font.ubuntu.com (http://font.ubuntu.com/) with license information, sources, etc.

Another source is http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/ttf-ubuntu-font-family in deb format.
Hmmm...

To be honest I had no idea that you could get to fonts there. I had gone to the font.ubuntu.com site, but had missed the download link. Had I known, I would have simply directed people there.

Oh well, now there is one more source for the fonts. :)