How to install fonts
Windows
- Download the font package (.zip)
- Uncompress the package
- Search for “fonts” in the Start Menu or go to Start → Control Panel → Appearance and Personalization → Fonts
- Select all fonts and drag them into the Fonts folder
macOS
- Download the font package (.zip)
- Double click on the package to uncompress it
- Open Font Book (Go to Finder → Applications → Font Book)
- Select all of the font files and drag them to the Font column (i.e., the second column) of Font Book
Linux
- Command-line:
cd ~/Downloads # or wherever you downloaded a font pack. unzip <font package>.zip # for a single user mkdir -p ~/.fonts cp *otf *otc ~/.fonts fc-cache -f -v # optional # for all users sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto sudo cp *otf *otc /usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto sudo fc-cache -f -v # optional
- Gnome desktop for a single user
- Download and uncompress a font package
- Make
.fonts
directory in your home directory if it's not present. - Make a folder named "
noto
" (optional) - Drag and drop fonts to either
.fonts
or.fonts/noto
- Gnome desktop for all users
- Download and uncompress a font package
- Press Alt-F2 and type "
gksu nautilus /usr/share/fonts
" - Make a folder named "
opentype
" if not present and open it - Make a folder "
noto
" in "opentype
" folder. - Drag and drop fonts obtained in step a to "
noto
" folder.
- Using fonts
- Some programs will recognize newly installed fonts as soon as font-cache is updated. It can take a while to update the fontcache in case of super-otc.
- Other programs such as Chrome requires restart.
- Chrome on Linux cannot recognize more than 2 weights. See http://crbug.com/368442