How To Install silkscreen-fonts on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install silkscreen-fonts on Fedora 36.
What is silkscreen-fonts
Silkscreen is a four member type family for your Web graphics created by Jason Kottke. Silkscreen is best used in places where extremely small graphical display type is needed. The primary use is for navigational items (nav bars, menus, etc), but it works well wherever small type is needed. In order to preserve the proper spacing and letterforms, Silkscreen should be used at 8pt. multiples (8pt., 16pt., 24pt., etc.) with anti-aliasing turned off.
We can use yum or dnf to install silkscreen-fonts on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install silkscreen-fonts.
Install silkscreen-fonts on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install silkscreen-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install silkscreen-fonts
Install silkscreen-fonts on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install silkscreen-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install silkscreen-fonts
How To Uninstall silkscreen-fonts on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the silkscreen-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove silkscreen-fonts
silkscreen-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-silkscreen.conf
/usr/share/appdata/silkscreen.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-silkscreen.conf
/usr/share/fonts/silkscreen
/usr/share/fonts/silkscreen/slkscr.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/silkscreen/slkscrb.ttf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install silkscreen-fonts on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
