Installing Microsoft Fonts in Bluefin

[pgjersvik]

I have been searching the forum but have not been able to find out how to install Microsoft fonts in Bluefin. Is there a way to copy the fonts to a .fonts folder and then use the “fc-cache -f” command similar to Fedora? Thanks in advance for the help!

[littlebit670]

If you have a Windows machine you can copy all font files from C:\Windows\Fonts, I don’t know of other ways to obtain Windows fonts.

Copy those files to ~/.local/share/fonts and run that fc-cache command.

[pgjersvik]

Hey thanks a million for responding with your suggestion! I have the microsoft fonts saved from my Fedora laptop and was able to copy them to the folder you mentioned. Did the font cache update and now they are available to me in Bluefin. Worked like a charm!

[rzeczyspisane]

There was a topic about it a while back. Somebody has posted a bash script, that satisfies my needs

Suggestion : ujust install microsoft fonts

here’s a bash script: #!/bin/bash # Ensure cabextract is installed if ! command -v cabextract &> /dev/null then echo "cabextract could not be found, installing..." brew install -y cabextract fi # Create the fonts directory if it doesn't exist mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts # Navigate to the fonts directory cd ~/.local/share/fonts # Array of Microsoft font executables font_exes=( "andale32.exe" "arial32.exe" "arialb32.exe" "comic32.exe" "courie32.exe" "georgi32…

[ailepet]

The official Bluefin FAQ also has an answer, suggesting to use this Homebrew tap.