Install Google Fonts on Ubuntu

bash-install_google_fonts_on_ubuntu.md

Install Google Fonts

Download desired fonts

https://fonts.google.com/?selection.family=Open+Sans

Install Google Fonts on Ubuntu

cd /usr/share/fonts
sudo mkdir googlefonts
cd googlefonts
sudo unzip -d . ~/Downloads/Open_Sans.zip
sudo chmod -R --reference=/usr/share/fonts/opentype /usr/share/fonts/googlefonts

Register fonts

sudo fc-cache -fv

Check if font installed

fc-match OpenSans

Bibliography

http://www.binarytides.com/gorgeous-looking-fonts-ubuntu-linux
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/05/manually-install-fonts-ubuntu-16-04

Amazing thanks! Just remember you need to cd into googlefonts before unzipping!
Best regards!

Thanks!
you might wanna update your gist to point to the download url, rather than the reference page, and specify the name of the file you expect, otherwise you'll get query string junk (for open sans that'd be: wget -O Open_Sans.zip https://fonts.google.com/download?family=Open%20Sans)

great... thanks

Really helpful

Very useful!

Thank you very much !

Thanks for this!
The install part is better written as:

cd /usr/share/fonts 
sudo mkdir googlefonts
sudo unzip -d . ~/Downloads/fonts.zip 
sudo chmod -R --reference=opentype googlefonts

You can also install some of the fonts as packages on newer ubuntu (I'm on 18.04):
sudo apt install fonts-lato fonts-open-sans fonts-roboto fonts-mononoki

Thanks for this!
The install part is better written as:

cd /usr/share/fonts 
sudo mkdir googlefonts
sudo unzip -d . ~/Downloads/fonts.zip 
sudo chmod -R --reference=opentype googlefonts

Thanks. Reformatted gist [...]

if you want google_product_sans =>

https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4324851&d=1509979469 and copy
Font_ProductSans2/system/fonts/ to /usr/share/fonts/googlefonts

I have used typecatcher. i think, worth to mention here.

Very nice thanks

This is fantastic...works on various debian based linux distros swiftly, thank you

You can also install some of the fonts as packages on newer ubuntu (I'm on 18.04): sudo apt install fonts-lato fonts-open-sans fonts-roboto fonts-mononoki

this is awesome, it helped me. thanks

Could I not install new fonts in the user Home folder?

for anyone using WSL2:
sudo unzip -d . /mnt/c/Users/admin/Downloads/Cantarell.zip

Thanks man!!!

You can also install some of the fonts as packages on newer ubuntu (I'm on 18.04): sudo apt install fonts-lato fonts-open-sans fonts-roboto fonts-mononoki

Hey! How do you figure out which of the fonts can be installed this way. I wanted to install the Inter Tight but sudo apt install fonts-inter-tight doesn't seem to work.

Thanks.

You can also install some of the fonts as packages on newer ubuntu (I'm on 18.04): sudo apt install fonts-lato fonts-open-sans fonts-roboto fonts-mononoki

Hey! How do you figure out which of the fonts can be installed this way. I wanted to install the Inter Tight but sudo apt install fonts-inter-tight doesn't seem to work.

You can search the Debian Packages: https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. For example, here is the search results for "fonts-inter": https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=fonts-inter. Usually, when you find a Debian package there will be an Ubuntu equivalent.

You can also search with the apt command itself.

$ apt-cache search fonts-inter
fonts-inter - Inter font family
fonts-inter-variable - Inter font family (VF)

Thanks!

This works all the time, thanks a lot.