Installs selected fonts from the Google fonts directory by selectively cloning the Git repository at github.com/google/fonts and creating symlinks in your ~/.fonts directory.
Quickstart:
$ pipsi install googlefonts_installer
$ mkdir -p ~/googlefonts
$ cd ~/googlefonts
# Add list of font paths from git repo to:
$ vim googlefonts.conf
$ googlefonts-installerTo update fonts from Git, install new fonts or remove fonts, just (optionally) change googlefonts.conf and re-run googlefonts-installer.
Requirements
To use this, you’ll need
Python 3.3+ to run this script,
a recent version of Git supporting sparse checkouts,
a Linux-based system that uses the ~/.fonts directory.
Usage / How it works
Create a directory for the Git clone:
$ mkdir -p ~/Fonts/googlefonts/ $ cd ~/Fonts/googlefonts/Install the googlefonts-installer package from PyPi. A good way to do this is via pipsi:
$ pipsi install googlefonts_installerYou now have the googlefonts-installer command available.
List the fonts to install, or more precicely the sub-paths of the Google fonts Git repository to clone, in a googlefonts.conf configuration file, e.g.:
ufl/ubuntu ofl/firamono ofl/firasans
For example, to install Ubuntu Regular, use the directory part ufl/ubuntu/ of the file ufl/ubuntu/Ubuntu-Regular.ttf in the repository.
Run googlefonts-installer. This …
If not yet done, inits a Git repository with sparse-checkout (only clone the defined paths) and adds the Google fonts Git repository as a remote.
Pulls the latest changes (shallow history to save space).
Creates symlinks for each font directory to ~/.fonts.
Removes broken symlinks from ~/.fonts for uninstalled (removed from googlefonts.conf) fonts.
Defaults
The googlefonts-installer command defaults to:
reading config from googlefonts.conf in the current working directory,
cloning into the current working directory and
symlinking to ~/.fonts.
Use the --config, --work-dir and --fonts-dir arguments to change this behaviour.
Hint
To find the sub-paths of the fonts you’d like to install, go to https://github.com/google/fonts, hit t and start typing a font’s name. Github will list all matching file names.
Changelog
0.3.1 - unreleased
Fix broken source and wheel distributions. Now actually installable.
0.3.0 - 2016-03-10
Clean up broken symlinks from ~/.fonts after uninstalling a font (removed from googlefonts.conf).
Improve documentation.
0.2.0 - 2016-03-09
Packaging fix.
0.1.0 - 2016-03-09
Initial implementation.
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