Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Windows Calibri and Cambria fonts for Linux Debian/Ubuntu

If you need to use Office365 web apps for work collaboration with other people on a Linux Debian/Ubuntu machine, try installing the following substitute font. It makes document, spreadsheet sharing and emails much easier as these substitute fonts are metrics compatible with the original Microsoft fonts. This means that the document layouts are not affect and look very similar on Linux compared to Windows.

apt-get install fonts-crosextra-carlito fonts-crosextra-caladea

For comparison, below are some screenshots using both Calibri and Cambria fonts.

Word 2016 on Windows 10

Word Online on Firefox Ubuntu 20.04

The fonts are slightly different but the layout of the text, line wrapping are the same on both Windows and Linux.



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