These selections add special support for cyrillic languages like Russian and Serbian, etc.:Īpk add font-vollkorn font-misc-cyrillic font-mutt-misc font-screen-cyrillic font-winitzki-cyrillic font-cronyx-cyrillic These selections will cover most languages and are a good fit for most setups:Īpk add terminus-font ttf-inconsolata ttf-dejavu font-bitstream-* font-noto font-noto-cjk ttf-font-awesome font-noto-extra according to the Wikipedia Page on languages for article translation.

Exceptions are Arabic, Persian, Thai, Tamil, etc. font-misc-misc is installed with Xorg, so fonts for most languages (Japanese, Korean, Latin, Cyrillic) are already covered. If they work for you (or if they don’t!), drop a comment below.Default internal fb fonts (tty console) or xorg fonts (desktops) are suitable for a default installation. Fine, but my client didn’t have this option! If this is the situation you find yourself in, here are instructions for adding new fonts that will be read by Inkscape (and Gimp). This means when you have downloaded a font, instead of double-clicking then clicking Install you have to right-click and choose Install for all users instead. In my client’s case, it was because the fonts were not installed for all users.

The new solution involves nothing more complicated (on Windows) than installing them in the standard fonts directory (C:WindowsFonts) but it also seems that in some cases this also fails to work. Typical! The question then, is how to solve this persistent issue with Inkscape when the SkyFonts (which I find has become unreliable and unstable) workaround doesn’t work? When a client was asked me about this, I directed them to my original post, only to discover that those instructions no longer work. I wrote a post a few months ago about using SkyFonts to install new fonts in Inkscape, a freeware graphic design package that is a great substitute for Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw.

Aditional fonts for inkscape