More posts about “Fonts”

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Google Releases its New Google Sans Flex Font as Open Source

A font's a font – unless you're into typography! Google Sans Flex font is a new open source font made for screens. It looks great set as Ubuntu's system font.

24 November 2025
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GNOME 48 Introduces New Default Adwaita Fonts

GNOME 48 uses a new default UI and monospace font, though this typographic turnabout won’t impact Ubuntu users directly. If you feel a sense of deja vu it’s because GNOME tested a font switch before, […]

2 February 2025

Ubuntu Adds Support for Unicode’s Newest Emoji

A paint splatter, super-tired face, and a harp are among new emoji users of Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 LTS will be able to see and type after installing an update to the Noto Color Emoji font. Ubuntu, […]

17 December 2024

How to Try GNOME’s New Font Choice on Ubuntu

Word that upstream devs want to make Inter the default UI font in GNOME has me wondering what the typeface looks in action on the Ubuntu desktop. So I decided to find out. But perhaps […]

10 July 2024

Microsoft Gives its Open-Source Developer Font Major Update

Cascadia Code is an open-source monospaced font created by Microsoft, first released in 2020. It’s used as the default font in the official Windows Terminal app. Similar to Intel’s One Mono, JetBrains’ Mono and IBM’s […]

26 May 2024

Ubuntu Update Adds Support for 118 New Emoji

A brown mushroom, a slice of lime, and a fiery phoenix — no, that’s not the start of a rubbish joke but a selection of the 118 new emoji added to the Unicode standard. And […]

13 December 2023

Intel Updates its Popular Open Source Mono Font

Intel’s open-source monospace font (imaginatively titled ‘Intel One Mono’) has been updated. “You’re blogging about a frickin’ font update?!”, you scoff (justifiably perhaps). But hey: indulge me (if only so I can continue using words […]

22 August 2023
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Ubuntu 23.10 Swapping DejaVu for Noto Fonts

Ubuntu devs plan on making a notable typographic change in the upcoming release of Ubuntu 23.10 ‘Mantic Minotaur’. In an effort to improve the quality and (marginally) reduce the number of fonts a standard Ubuntu […]

20 July 2023

Intel’s New Open Source Mono Font is Pretty Decent

Between IBM Plex Mono, Hack, Fira Code, and JetBrains Mono I think we Linux users are spoilt for choice when it comes to open-source monospace fonts that look good and work great. Still, there’s always […]

7 June 2023
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Help Test a New Version of the Ubuntu Font

An updated version of the Ubuntu font boasting better support for non-latin languages is nearing release. Ubuntu developers want to ship a new revision of its iconic typeface in next month’s Ubuntu 23.04 release but […]

22 March 2023
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Easily Install Google Fonts on Linux with this App

Font Downloader a GTK app for Linux desktops. It lets you search, browse, preview, download, and install fonts from Google Fonts on your Linux desktop.

6 August 2021
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FontManager 0.8 Released with Google Fonts Integration

Font Manager 0.8 for Linux adds integration with Google Fonts, one of the biggest online sources of free fonts. Learn more about the app in this post.

29 November 2020