Install fonts on Linux - Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, Mint - Microsoft TrueType core and many more

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Installing fonts is important for those who are multilingual or want to spice up their screen. Many websites uses different fonts and without having to install fonts on Linux, you wont see those, you will see a flat boring default font. I will also show how to reconfigure your fontconfig so that it looks better on your CRT or LCD screen.
This posts shows how you can install fonts and configure them on the following Linux Operating systems:

1. Debian Linux
2. Ubuntu Linux
3. Linux Mint
4. Kali Linux
5. Any Debian or Ubuntu Variant such as Elementary OS

The basic – Microsoft TrueType core Fonts

This package allows for easy installation of the Microsoft True Type Core Fonts for the Web including:

  Andale Mono
  Arial Black
  Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  Comic Sans MS (Bold)
  Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  Impact
  Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  Webdings

You will need an Internet connection to download these fonts if you don’t already have them.

NOTE: the package ttf-liberation contains free variants of the Times, Arial and Courier fonts. It’s better to use those instead unless you specifically need one of the other fonts from this package.

Install instructions:

First of all let’s check if we even have those fonts in our repositories. I use Kali Linux which is a variant of Debian Linux. If you’re using Kali, you need to add the default official repositories.
Let’s do an apt-cache search:

root@kali:~# apt-cache search ttf-mscorefonts-installer 
ttf-mscorefonts-installer - Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts

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