Google Fonts are free and open source fonts. It is huge repository of awesome fonts contributed by many designers.
Install Google Fonts on Ubuntu 16.04
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Google Fonts on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus).
Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 2. Installing Fontconfig.
using command
Step 3. Create directory .fonts.
Now create a directory in user’s home directory:
mkdir ~/.fonts
Step 4. Download Google Fonts.
Download the google fonts inside directory ~/.fonts which we have just created, Also unzip the google fonts downloaded file inside same .fonts directory:
cd ~/.fonts && wget https://github.com/google/fonts/archive/master.zip && unzip master.zip
Next, build font information cache files:
fc-cache -fv
Wait for a few minutes till the command get successfully finish. That’s all, now in your Ubuntu system google fonts are available. You can find the google fonts available to others application also like gimp,gedit and many more.
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Google Fonts. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Google Fonts on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Google Fonts web site.