Easily Download And Install Google Web Fonts In Ubuntu With TypeCatcher

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://launchpad.net/typecatcher">TypeCatcher</a> is an application that allows to easily browse, search, download and install fonts from the Google Web Fonts collection, which includes hundreds of open source fonts.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>"<a href="http://www.google.com/fonts">Google Fonts</a> makes it quick and easy for everyone to use web fonts, including professional designers and developers. We believe that everyone should be able to bring quality typography to their web pages and applications".</i></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnVZ3tzCwBeNZcL52H0MRG7LX7Y04hreRxupL7NAuAwiN5uueAJIfobdnXsF22FSmv_3owPkx6X6c5fSX2smH3KojWB33iCNm4pNabd3WkeosGfbJWvBX4LjUNdsvbhnY_ZUg8ObXfyI/s1600/typecatcher.png"><img alt="TypeCatcher Google Fonts installer" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnVZ3tzCwBeNZcL52H0MRG7LX7Y04hreRxupL7NAuAwiN5uueAJIfobdnXsF22FSmv_3owPkx6X6c5fSX2smH3KojWB33iCNm4pNabd3WkeosGfbJWvBX4LjUNdsvbhnY_ZUg8ObXfyI/s320/typecatcher.png" /></a></div><br /><b>TypeCatcher features:</b><br /><ul><li>preview the fonts with adjustable size and text;</li><li>search fonts;</li><li>download and install the fonts on your computer;</li><li>uninstall any fonts you've installed using TypeCatcher;</li><li>for more info about a font, it can open its webpage in your default web browser.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As you can see, the application is pretty simple but it's also very useful since Google doesn't have a direct download link on its Fonts page: clicking the download link offers to "Sync Google fonts to your desktop using <a href="http://www.fonts.com/web-fonts/google">SkyFonts</a>", an application somewhat similar to TypeCatcher but which is only available for Windows and Mac (update: another way of downloading some fonts is to add them to your "collection" and then download your whole collection from Google Fonts).</div><br />The application doesn't support downloading and installing all the fonts at once but for this, you can use a <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/01/automatically-install-all-google-web.html" title="Automatically Install All The Google Web Fonts In Ubuntu Using A Script">script</a> we've posted a while back.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install TypeCatcher in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">TypeCatcher is available in the official Ubuntu 13.10 repositories so to install it, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install typecatcher</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04, you can install TypeCatcher by using its official PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:andrewsomething/typecatcher<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install typecatcher</code></pre><br /><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install TypeCatcher from <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/typecatcher/">AUR</a>.<br /><br />Grab the <b>source code or report</b> any <b>bugs</b> you may find @ <a href="https://launchpad.net/typecatcher">Launchpad</a>.

Easily Download And Install Google Web Fonts In Ubuntu With TypeCatcher

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