A bash script to install all Google Fonts, system wide, on debian based systems (ex. Ubuntu)

install-google-fonts.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Written by: Keefer Rourke <https://krourke.org>
# Based on AUR package <https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ttf-google-fonts-git>

# dependancies: fonts-cantarell, ttf-ubuntu-font-family, git
sudo apt-get install fonts-cantarell ttf-ubuntu-font-family git
srcdir="/tmp/google-fonts"
pkgdir="/usr/share/fonts/truetype/google-fonts"
giturl="git://github.com/google/fonts.git"

mkdir $srcdir
cd $srcdir
echo "Cloning Git repository..."
git clone $giturl

echo "Installing fonts..."
sudo mkdir -p $pkgdir
sudo find $srcdir -type f -name "*.ttf" -exec install -Dm644 {} $pkgdir \;

echo "Cleaning up..."
sudo find $pkgdir -type f -name "Cantarell-*.ttf" -delete \;
sudo find $pkgdir -type f -name "Ubuntu-*.ttf" -delete \;

# provides roboto
sudo apt-get --purge remove fonts-roboto

echo "Updating font-cache..."
sudo fc-cache -f > /dev/null

echo "Done!"

Great :) Works really well!

Perfect!

Simple and effective, thanks!

Here's a simpler solution. In your home directory:

mkdir .fonts
git clone git://github.com/google/fonts.git .fonts/google-fonts
fc-cache -f

There are other directories where you can store fonts, e.g. ~/.local/share/fonts or /usr/local/share/fonts if you want them to be available to all users. See https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts#Manually for more info.

PS if there are any fonts that you don't want to import (for example system fonts that you already have like google-fonts/ofl/cantarell or google-fonts/ufl/ubuntu) just delete the directories for the fonts you don't want to import before running fc-cache.

Some suggestion

git clone --depth=1 $giturl

also is ttf not tff :-)

sudo find $pkgdir -type f -name "Cantarell-*.ttf" -delete \;
sudo find $pkgdir -type f -name "Ubuntu-*.ttf" -delete \;

see also here
https://github.com/qrpike/Web-Font-Load/blob/master/install.sh

works like a charm!

Awesome - Thank you so much!!

Hello, please tell me how to instal gg font with bash file? im amateur, dont know how to use this *.sh file
thanks!

Hi, is it failed:
$ sudo ./install-google-fonts.sh
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package fonts-cantarell,
E: Unable to locate package ttf-ubuntu-font-family,
Cloning Git repository...
Cloning into 'fonts'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 18, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (18/18), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (18/18), done.
remote: Total 25176 (delta 2), reused 10 (delta 0), pack-reused 25158
Receiving objects: 100% (25176/25176), 528.05 MiB | 1.44 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (13576/13576), done.
Updating files: 100% (7041/7041), done.
Installing fonts...
Cleaning up...
find: paths must precede expression: ;' find: paths must precede expression: ;'
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'fonts-roboto' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Updating font-cache...
Done!

@oldman20 I know this worked at the time that I wrote and published it, but that was a long time ago and I no longer use debian/ubuntu personally. Sorry I can't help.

thanks anyway, bad news :(

thanks anyway, bad news :(

try that one -> https://github.com/hotice/webupd8/blob/master/install-google-fonts

Failing due to commas in apt-get statement. Does not install Cantrell Ubuntu or Git just skips them. Also, apt-get is obsolete you could just use apt. Lastly, Personally, I would uninstall roboto before I installed anything at all.

@skylerwebdev hey, this is just a gist — I've updated the script to remove the commas, but really — it's 4 years old and probably no longer up to date. Don't use this.

@keeferrourke I will be steailing this gist and giving you props it still works 100% and is the only gist out there that does so! I actually went thru to the git link u have posted to googlefonts and last update was 3 days ago GREAT JOB

This still works really well! The Google Fonts repo seems to be maintained @ https://github.com/google/fonts and this still seems safe to use. Even on 20.04 fonts-cantarell and fonts-roboto are still available in universe repos. Thank you for publishing this!

If anyone wants a GUI, they can check out typecatcher: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/08/typecatcher-google-fonts-download-for-ubuntu

sudo apt-get install -y typecatcher

make the script executable, then ....

./install-google-fonts.sh

still working fine 11/05/2020

Glad to know it still works 🎉

make the script executable, then ....

./install-google-fonts.sh

still working fine 11/05/2020

still working for me 06/20/2021 on ubuntu 20 04
download ZIP file > unZIP > right click install-google-fonts.sh > Properties > Permission > select execute : allow executing file as program > close properties > open terminal and run ./install-google-fonts.sh

@keeferrourke, could I make a suggestion to change line 15 to git clone $giturl --depth 1 so that unnecessary git history is not cloned? Makes for a much faster install.

Still working like a charm!

i've create an installer for individual fonts, and for more systems, than just debian: https://github.com/alexmyczko/fnt