How to get pretty fonts in Google docs on Linux?

On Mac and Windows the Google docs fonts look all pretty, but when I look at the very same document on Linux (Ubuntu 13.10 and Lubuntu 14.04 at least) the font doesn't look nearly as good.

How do I fix this?

Some screenshots illustrating my point:

This is the prettiness I get on Mac (MacOS X 10.9)...

...But on Ubuntu (Lubuntu 14.04) it looks all ugly.

2 Answers

The is that the fonts are not installed on your system. You need to have the font .ttf files to have the fonts. I solved this my navigating to my Windows partition, finding the fonts directory, and copying over the required fonts - Try looking in C:/Windows/Fonts

You might also need to install Ubuntu restricted Extra .

Also, I previously found this if you want any Calibri fonts

_{This is intended to be helpful, but I don't intend to muck around with Windows copyright in anyway....}

What you need to do is to install the Microsoft True Type Core Fonts for the Web (available in the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package). These are not installed on Ubuntu by default since they're not open source, but you can add them with:

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

After installation, just restart your browser to benefit from the new fonts. :)

Screenshot:

Google docs lookin' all pretty on Ubuntu (Lubuntu 14.04).