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Fonts - gimp-artist - 05-05-2018
I'm testing how fonts are working in gimp. I want to install a lot of fonts. Does anyone know where to get fancy fonts and to make fancy fonts? Is it okay to use downloaded fonts for my art-work, let's say for youtube or facebook? Thanks for reading.
RE: Fonts - rich2005 - 05-05-2018
There are sites which list fonts: try
https://www.dafont.com/mtheme.php?id=1
https://www.whatfontis.com/all-fonts.html
and smaller collections like https://fontlibrary.org/
These will usually state if free-to-use and/or non-commercial use, you need to check out if required.
Google fonts is a big collection, not so many fancy types but good, free to use fonts.
https://fonts.google.com/ and you can download the whole lot if you search https://github.com/google/fonts
Using linux and Gimp 2.10 your fonts go in ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/fonts/ but an alternative is your home partition in ~/.fonts/
Edit:
Quote: I want to install a lot of fonts.
Never a good idea, Easy enough in Linux to move font files in-and-out of your Gimp profile with a 2-pane file browser. No need to restart Gimp there is a refresh icon bottom of the Fonts dock.
An alternative is Ofnuts plugin to manage resources see: http://gimp-tools.sourceforge.net/managementtools.shtml
the download is about 30 down: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/ dated 2013-05-26
Edit again
Just checking that addonCollectionManager-3.0.py does work with Gimp 2.10.0
Added folder fonts_storage in the Gimp profile.
Added some folders with font collections (ttf/otf) to fonts_storage
Seems to work: https://i.imgur.com/Lzyh8ns.jpg that is a right-click in the fonts dock.
Zipped collections should work as well, the Gimp flatpak added ok but not too keen on removing. Needs investigation.
RE: Fonts - Ofnuts - 05-05-2018
Quote:Just checking that addonCollectionManager-3.0.py does work with Gimp 2.10.0
Thanks, duly noted
RE: Fonts - rich2005 - 10-26-2019
From a GIMP 3.0 user ? I wonder how often he uses this in Gimp ?
I would avoid this like the plague. Not much use for Gimp.
Very much a social media sort of web-service. quote...It can be used to add a unique touch to your social media posts such as those on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tumblr, etc. That says it all. I did manage a copy-n-paste by a circuitous route ( my linux clipboard does not paste the copy into Gimp). Not sure what it is, some non-standard characters regardless of what they claim on the site.
![[Image: G5n35TT.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/G5n35TT.jpg)
However, it did create a path but why bother when there are plenty of 'Fancy Fonts' around that work. see: https://www.dafont.com/mtheme.php?id=1
Download whatever you like, put the font file in C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\fonts
RE: Fonts - Ofnuts - 10-26-2019
Further more it doesn't support accented charaters, so English only.