faf

A tool to easily download fonts on Linux 🐧 and MacOS 🍏

Even though most if not all Linux distros have font installers. None of the ones i have seen download them for you.

This tool makes is as easy as finding an open source font you want and typing: faf -S [font name]

All fonts downloaded with faf are FREE

Google fonts, as well as FontSquirrel both provide only fonts which are free for commercial use.

How do i use this?

Get build dependencies:

• Arch/Manjaro:# pacman -S gcc cmake
• Debian/Ubuntu:# apt-get install cmake build-essential
• MacOS: $ brew install cmake

First clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/aiuno/faf.git

Create and go to the source code build directory: mkdir faf/build && cd faf/build

Build the thing: cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. && make

Finally, install it: sudo make install

Now you can use faf.

For convenience, here is the output of faf -h:

Usage:
    faf <operation> <options> [...]

operations:
    faf -S [fonts]                   Download font(s)
    faf -R [fonts]                   Remove installed font(s)
    faf -Q [fonts]                   Search for font(s)

options:
    -ng --no-google                  Do not use Google Fonts
    --system                         Install fonts for all users
    --ignore <variant>(,variant)     Ignore a font variant
    --attend <weight>(,<weight>)     Download "extra" font weights

    extra weights:
        thin                         (100)
        extralight                   (200)
        light                        (300)
        medium                       (500)
        semibold                     (600)
        extrabold                    (800)
        heavy                        (900)
    variants:
        regular
        italic
        bold