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Ubuntu For Non-Geeks, 3rd Edition
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Ubuntu For Non-Geeks, 3rd Edition

by Rickford Grant
June 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
360 pages
9h 9m
English
No Starch Press
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Chapter 11. FONT FEATHERED FRENZY

Adding New Fonts to Your System

FONT FEATHERED FRENZY

Your Ubuntu system comes with a wide variety of very usable and, at least to my eyes, rather handsome TrueType fonts. However, these tend to be a bit on the conservative side of the aesthetic spectrum, and many users will want to add a few more distinctive fonts to the system repertoire. In my own case, I had this really cool idea of writing messages to my friend in old Scandinavian runes. (Of course, my friend wet-blanketed the idea, so it all came to naught….)

You probably won't be interested in sending cryptic, runic messages to your friends, but you may want to print out an award ...

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