Quick Tip: Installing Luxi Fonts on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

October 27th, 2007 · Posted by Toor · 4 Comments

Luxi is my best favorite fonts. It includes Luxi Sans, Luxi Serif, and Luxi Mono. This tutorial will help you install Luxi fonts on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

1. Get Luxi fonts from here.

2. Install Luxi fonts with the following commands:

For current user:

tar jxvf font-bh-ttf-1.0.0.tar.bz2 -C ~/.fonts/

For all user:

sudo tar jxvf font-bh-ttf-1.0.0.tar.bz2 -C /usr/share/fonts/truetype/

3. Refresh fonts cache, run this command:

sudo fc-cache -f -v

Luxi fonts preview:

Setting Luxi fonts, click System → Preferences → Appearance → Fonts:

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4 responses so far ↓

1 Robin Bultot // Oct 27, 2007 at 4:25 am

I like DejaVu Sans ExtraLight 8 as default font..
Window title font DejaVu Sans bold 8
Fixed width font DejaVu Sans Mono Book 8

Try it. Install ttf-dejavu-extra
2 Me // Nov 3, 2007 at 5:29 pm

Great, large improvement over the default fonts! Thanks for sharing!
3 Tobias // Nov 18, 2007 at 7:02 pm

Even easier, just install ttf-xfree86-nonfree, the Luxi family is in there.

Besides, are you certain about unhinted?
4 Ibod Catooga // Dec 21, 2007 at 4:39 pm

Wow, those fonts look like a cat’s ass, either hinted or unhinted. I’ve seen anal rapes that were prettier. Damn.

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