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Author: Amar Tufo
Date: 7. July 2018
Email: amartufotm@gmail.com
Apstract:
In this very short article I’m about to show you how to install a custom font by name
Kavivanar in Ubuntu MATE 16.04.4 and to use it in Libre Office, GIMP, Inkscape
and others application. The main purpose of this article is to demonstrate use of
terminal to accomplish daily Linux tasks without GUI. Ok, let’s get started.
Key words: Ubuntu, MATE, terminal, Kavivanar
1. Getting Kavivanar online
Figure 1: Kavivanar font on Urbanfonts.com
Figure source: urbanfonts.com
First thing we need to do is to download this font online via Google Fonts or other
font’s repositories available online such as urbanfonts, fontsquirrel. In this article we
will get our font via urbanfont. Ok, once our font is downloaded we need to install it
so that we can use it. I’m using Ubuntu MATE 16.04.4 LTS and I’m gonna
demonstrate how to install this font via terminal. Since we have download it inside
our Download directory, we can install it.
2. Installing Kavivanar font
Figure 2: Fonts destination directory /usr/share/fonts
Figure source: /home/amar/Desktop/figure2.png
Installation process is very easy and you can install this font using numerous ways
but I prefer terminal. One thing must be clear. In order that we can use Kavivanar,
this font has to be installed into /usr/share/fonts directory where all Ubuntu MATE
fonts are residing (figure 2). Now, inside this directory we gonna install our font.
Here’s another thing to keep in mind. Since our font is downloaded as .zip archive in
order to extract it inside /usr/share/fonts directory, I’m gonna use unzip utility to
extract Kavivanar archive.
Figure 3: Kavivanar.zip archive inside Download directory
Figure source: /home/amar/Desktop/figure3.png
Now let’s extract our Kavivanar.font inside font’s destination directory (see figure4).
Figure 4: Extracting Kavivanar.zip font archive into /usr/share/fonts/truetype
Figure source: /home/amar/Desktop/figure4.png
Since our command did not prompt any error it means that we have successfully
extracted Kavivanar font into it’s destination directory (see figure 5).
Figure 5: Checking /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory on Kavivanar font
Figure source: /home/amar/Desktop/figure5.png
Due to fact that Kavivanar font is a truetype font, I have used a full command in
order to extract it and install it into it’s destination directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype.
Just in case that you can’t read the command I used to extract Kavivanar font, you
can read it down bellow.
sudo unzip ~/Downloads/Kavivanar.zip d “usr/share/fonts/truetype”
Now out Kavivanar font is installed and should be ready for use. To demonstrate that
Kavivanar has been successfully installed, here’s a quick sample of TecMint name
written using Kavivanar font.
Figure 6: TecMint portal name written using Kavivanar font
Figure source: /home/amar/Desktop/figure6.png
Conclusion
There you go, we have successfully installed Kavivanar font into Ubuntu MATE
16.04.4 Linux distribution and Kavivanar is ready for use in LibreOffice, GIMP,
Inkscape. You can use it in writing quick essays instead of Times New Roman font,
creating GIMP posters for your school or university and much more. On the technical
side, you have learn how to use terminal to accomplish your daily tasks without GUI
on much faster way. We have used sudo to grant administrator privileges so that we
can extract and install custom font such as Kavivanar to system directory
/usr/share/fonts/ depending on font’s type. I hope that you like this article and if so
make sure to comment it, share it on social media. See you next time.
Quick references
[1] Kavivanar font
https://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/Kavivanar.font
Graphic poster of Assyrian king TiglatPilizar I made in GIMP using Kavivanar