

Once installed, all applications should automatically start making the proper substitutions for you. # apt-get install fonts-crosextra-carlito fonts-crosextra-caladeaįor sure you may also use your favourite package manager to install the two packages fonts-crosextra-carlito and fonts-crosextra-caladea. To install them, issue these commands as root in a shell: # apt-get update These two fonts are licensed under OFL 1.1 and available from Debian Jessie onwards.

We are not allowed to copy those fonts over to non-Windows systems, hence a substitute had to be found.įortunately, Google ran into the very same problem while deploying their ChromeOS, and they developed two fonts that are of equal size, namely Carlito and Caladea. The fonts in question are Calibri and Cambria. MS Office in recent versions comes with two commonly used fonts, which are set as default and cannot be used on computers not running the Windows operating system.
