cstrap / monaco-font

Install `Monaco Font` or other fonts on Linux distro (Ubuntu, CentOS...)

monaco-font

Install Monaco Font on Linux distro.

The idea started from here http://jorrel.blogspot.it/2007/11/monaco-on-ubuntu.html. The main goal of the repo was to provide a script that download and install the Monaco font on ubuntu and not provide the font itself.

Unfortunately, due to license issue I removed all Monaco_Linux.ttf binary files from the repo, see discussion on issue #10.

Nevertheless, all the scripts remain and accept a parameter that is the link to the font, see below; now all the scripts are generics and can accept a raw url that point to the font. That's sound good! Some of the world's best open source fonts are hosted right here on GitHub and can be viewed form:

• https://github.com/showcases/fonts

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Disclaimer: since I don't know the origin of the fonts, the original author and the original license, Monaco font (and potentially other fonts) will be used at own risk. Users should know the font license before download and install it. With this repo, I only provide the scripts that permits the download and then install fonts on your linux distro. All the scripts are provided as-is and have the public domain license; so you can copy, modify, use and so on without restrictions. I invite all the github users that fork and forked the repository to know that there's copyright issue on using fonts without permissions.

The Monaco_Linux.ttf font file can be downloaded from these links:

• http://jorrel.blogspot.it/2007/11/monaco-on-ubuntu.html => http://jorrel.googlepages.com/Monaco_Linux.ttf
• http://www.gringod.com/ => http://www.gringod.com/wp-upload/software/Fonts/Monaco_Linux.ttf
• https://gist.github.com/epegzz/1634235#file-monaco_linux-powerline-ttf => https://gist.github.com/epegzz/1634235/raw/4691e901750591f9cab0b4ae8b7c0731ebf28cce/Monaco_Linux-Powerline.ttf
• https://github.com/todylu/monaco.ttf => https://github.com/todylu/monaco.ttf/blob/master/monaco.ttf?raw=true

On the net you'll find a plethora of variations of Monaco, if you want make a PR in order to update the list and please provide and notify the license of the font whatever it is.

Feel free to ask to the maintainer of the font file or who has the font file on his/her server what's the license and please made a PR in order to update the information on this repo.

Many thanks for all the contributions!

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HOW TO

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/cstrap/monaco-font

Launch the script and replace [url] with the url of the font, e.g.

cd monaco-font
./install-font-ubuntu.sh http://usystem.googlecode.com/files/MONACO.TTF

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Install Monaco Font on Ubuntu

./install-font-ubuntu.sh [url]

Install Monaco Font on CentOS

./install-font-centos.sh [url]

Install Monaco Font on Gentoo

./install-font-gentoo.sh [url]

monaco-font's Issues

Bad ligatures on Eclipse

On some IDEs (I'm using Eclipse but I saw on IntelliJ IDEA too) the last release has bad ligatures (e.g. "f" "i" as in "filter" on 9 and 10 pt). The previous release was fine.

gnome terminal in ubuntu 12.4 can not set monaco as font

Can't use it in PhpStorm

Hello! Thanks for this repository.

I've installed this font on my Xubuntu 14.04 machine via provided command line. I can see that font is installed via Font Manager. However, I can't use it in PhpStorm (it's just missing from the font list).

Could you elaborate please? Thanks!

PhpStorm trial can be downloaded from here:
https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/download/

Can`t download ttf file from the download link

--2017-10-10 10:23:07--  https://gist.github.com/epegzz/1634235/raw/4691e901750591f9cab0b4ae8b7c0731ebf28cce/Monaco_Linux-Powerline.ttf
Resolving gist.github.com... 59.24.3.173
Connecting to gist.github.com|59.24.3.173|:443... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2017-10-10 10:24:11--  (try: 2)  https://gist.github.com/epegzz/1634235/raw/4691e901750591f9cab0b4ae8b7c0731ebf28cce/Monaco_Linux-Powerline.ttf
Connecting to gist.github.com|59.24.3.173|:443... 

Can you give me some suggestion?

need powerline version

thanks

Dead link in README

The following link is currently down: http://usystem.googlecode.com/files/MONACO.TTF

license on font file?

What is the license on this font?

Font looks ugly on web pages

I installed the font today by cloning the repo and running the install-font-ubuntu.sh script. It looks great on my editor, but it's really ugly on the web.

can't use in Matlab

After I executed that command, I can find and choose Monaco in Ubuntu terminal.
But I want to use Monaco in Matlab, I can't find Monaco in Matalab font preferences.
Is anyone knowing how to solve it?
Sincerely, thx~

Ubuntu: Monaco font is ugly (pixelated) in some apps, and the solution

There is an issue with this Monaco_Linux.ttf file.. On Ubuntu, in some applications (VSCode the editor, Chrome the browser), the font is pixelated when font size is 14 (other sizes like 14.5 is fine), and in others (Tilix the terminal emulator) the font is fine. Example: microsoft/vscode#49957 shows exactly what happened.

One proposed solution is disabling the embedded bit map: https://askubuntu.com/questions/386056/monaco-is-pixelated-in-web-pages and microsoft/vscode#49957 (comment), but it doesn't work for me.

I finally solved the issue by downloading the Monaco.ttf file from this source: https://www.fontpalace.com/font-download/monaco/ (note: I'm not sure if it's safe, though). Then, move thie file to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom/ as suggested by the author here, then run sudo fc-cache -f -v . in that directory to make the font effective. You may need to restart the applications to see the change.

I first posted this comment here, but I just realized I actually got the original URL from this repo.

I cant find monaco-font in tweaks or terminal settings after I installed it on Ubuntu18.04

cant find monaco-font in tweaks or terminal settings after I installed it on Ubuntu 18.04

No anti-aliasing at certain font sizes

When font size is 7 or 9 pt the font rendering is not anti-aliased any more. It looks awful. The same for both normal and bold typefaces. Italic versions are OK though.

it does't works on arch linux

I can't find monaco font on the list after I executed the command

problem is easy to solved, this is caused by the /usr/share/fonts/TTF directory does't exists.
after I created it, and it worked.
so Hope you can fix it .