How To Install tangerine-fonts on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install tangerine-fonts on CentOS 7. tangerine-fonts is Tangerine is a calligraphy font inspired by many italic chancery

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tangerine-fonts on CentOS 7.

What is tangerine-fonts

Tangerine is a calligraphy font inspired by many italic chancery hands from the 16-17th century. Its tall ascender, the most distinct characteristic of this type, takes a wide line space between lines and gives it a graceful texture. It is generally advisable to use Tangerine for a title or short text at large size because of the short height of lowercase letters. Tangerine is produced by Japanese type designer Toshi Omagari and was named after a woman who encouraged him to begin this work.

We can use yum or dnf to install tangerine-fonts on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tangerine-fonts.

Install tangerine-fonts on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install tangerine-fonts

Install tangerine-fonts on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install tangerine-fonts

How To Uninstall tangerine-fonts on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove tangerine-fonts

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tangerine-fonts on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.