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Where can I find some decent kanji fonts for linux. - childofthetao - 2011-08-17
The default fonts are quite horrendous :/
Does anyone know where I could get some better fonts? They don't have to be great, just better than the default.
Thanks
Where can I find some decent kanji fonts for linux. - Omoishinji - 2011-08-17
Have you tried search for CJK or CJKV fonts?
Where can I find some decent kanji fonts for linux. - ThomasB - 2011-08-17
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Japanese.html
Look for the Epson fonts, they are great. I know it's an .exe file but it's just a self-extracting archive. So after you extracted it on a (virtual) Windows machine just copy the files over to your unix system.
Where can I find some decent kanji fonts for linux. - bcrAn - 2011-08-17
childofthetao Wrote:The default fonts are quite horrendous :/By default, I use DejaVu Sans and Serif in Ubuntu that have support for Japanese, IPA, etc. Imo they are beautiful.
Does anyone know where I could get some better fonts? They don't have to be great, just better than the default.
Thanks
Where can I find some decent kanji fonts for linux. - childofthetao - 2011-08-17
Thanks for the help, but for some reason the fonts will not change in firefox :/ I select them in preferences but nothing happens...
Where can I find some decent kanji fonts for linux. - sonya - 2011-08-17
childofthetao Wrote:Thanks for the help, but for some reason the fonts will not change in firefox :/ I select them in preferences but nothing happens...Have you unchecked "Allow pages to choose their own fonts..." in the Advanced font settings window?
Where can I find some decent kanji fonts for linux. - childofthetao - 2011-08-17
I unticked it and a lot of fonts did change, but it's the Japanese fonts that won't bugde
Where can I find some decent kanji fonts for linux. - childofthetao - 2011-08-17
Although I do want to add, on the site linked to above I downloaded ttf30.exe, it contained japanese fonts and they did work perfectly, the problem is they were not to my liking, very confusing, so I deleted them. They are the only fonts that firefox seems to accept though :/
EDIT: The exe file contained several fonts but firefox would only display one of them. It's very strange indeed.
Where can I find some decent kanji fonts for linux. - sonya - 2011-08-17
Do you see a dropdown menu "Fonts for: <language>" at the top of the advanced font preferences window, and did you select Japanese there? If yes and it still doesn't work, I have no idea, sorry. ;-)
Where can I find some decent kanji fonts for linux. - childofthetao - 2011-08-17
Thank you my man, that's what I was missing.