[Fwd: How to identify the fonts used in Ubuntu?]

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 07:22:09PM -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote:
> Before playing with the fonts in Ubuntu, I'd _first_ like to know what
> fonts are actually being used so I can both see the base font to compare
> go back to the default if necessary.
> 
> How to do that?

I believe the default font settings for GNOME use the font alias "Sans",
which is then mapped through a complicated list of rules in
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf.

You can see which actual font gets chosen for that alias with fc-match:

    mg at pitonas:~ $ fc-match Sans
    Verdana-Regular.ttf: "Verdana" "Regular"

Marius Gedminas
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