## Font Preferences

Use the Font preference tool to select the fonts to use in your applications, windows, terminals, and desktop.

Tabella 8.4, “Font Preferences” lists the font preferences that you can modify.

Tabella 8.4. Font Preferences

Elemento dialog | Descrizione
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Application font | Click on the font selector button to select a font to use in your applications.
Desktop font | Click on the font selector button to select a font to use on your desktop only.
Window title font | Click on the font selector button to select a font to use in the titlebars of your windows.
Terminal font | Click on the font selector button to select a font to use in the Terminal application
Font Rendering | To specify how to render fonts on your screen, select one of the following options: Monochrome: Renders fonts in black and white only. The edges of characters might appear jagged in some cases because the characters are not antialiased. Antialiasing is an effect that is applied to the edges of characters to make the characters look smoother. Best shapes: Antialiases fonts where possible. Use this option for standard Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) monitors. Best contrast: Adjusts fonts to give the sharpest possible contrast, and also antialiases fonts, so that characters have smooth edges. This option might enhance the accessibility of the GNOME Desktop to users with visual impairments. Subpixel smoothing (LCDs): Uses techniques that exploit the shape of individual Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) pixels to render fonts smoothly. Use this option for LCD or flat-screen displays.
Details | Click on this button to specify further details of how to render fonts on your screen. Resolution (dots per inch): Use the spin box to specify the resolution to use when your screen renders fonts. Smoothing: Select one of the options to specify how to antialias fonts. Hinting: Hinting is a font-rendering technique that improves the quality of fonts at small sizes and an at low screen resolutions. Select one of the options to specify how to apply hinting your fonts. Subpixel order: Select one of the options to specify the subpixel color order for your fonts. Use this option for LCD or flat-screen displays.
Go to font folder | Click on this button to open the Fonts folder.

### Previewing a Font

A preview of a font shows the characters of a font at different sizes, as well as copyright and technical information. To preview a font, perform the following steps:

1. Open the Font preference tool by choosing System->Preferences->Font in the top panel.

2. Click on Details.

3. Click on Go to font folder. The Fonts folder opens.

4. Open a font to display a preview.

### Adding a TrueType Font

To add a TrueType font to your system, perform the following steps:

1. Open the Font preference tool by choosing System->Preferences->Font in the top panel.

2. Click on Details.

3. Click on Go to font folder. The Fonts folder opens.

4. Open a file manager window and select the TrueType font that you want to add.

5. Copy the TrueType font file that you want to add to the Fonts folder.

You can also open the Fonts folder by typing the following URI into Nautilus file manager's Open Location dialog: fonts:///.

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