How To Install comic-neue-fonts on CentOS 8

comic-neue-fonts is A typeface family inspired by Comic Sans

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install comic-neue-fonts on CentOS 8.

What is comic-neue-fonts

Comic Neue is a font created by Craig Rozynski that takes inspiration from Comic Sans. It is perfect as a display face, for marking up comments, and writing passive aggressive office memos.

We can use yum or dnf to install comic-neue-fonts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install comic-neue-fonts.

Install comic-neue-fonts on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install comic-neue-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install comic-neue-fonts

Install comic-neue-fonts on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install comic-neue-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install comic-neue-fonts

How To Uninstall comic-neue-fonts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the comic-neue-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove comic-neue-fonts

comic-neue-fonts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/fonts/conf.d/63-comic-neue.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/63-comic-neue.conf
/usr/share/fonts/comic-neue
/usr/share/fonts/comic-neue/ComicNeue-Regular.otf
/usr/share/fonts/comic-neue/ComicNeue_Bold.otf
/usr/share/fonts/comic-neue/ComicNeue_Bold_Oblique.otf
/usr/share/fonts/comic-neue/ComicNeue_Light.otf
/usr/share/fonts/comic-neue/ComicNeue_Light_Oblique.otf
/usr/share/fonts/comic-neue/ComicNeue_Oblique.otf

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install comic-neue-fonts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.