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My system came with DejaVu Sans and DejaVu Sans Condensed installed by default.

PROBLEM: Inkscape only shows DejaVu Sans.

  • Do I have to configure something special in Inkscape?
  • Or is DejaVu Sans Condensed supposed to be obtained by selecting DejaVu Sans and pressing Toggle bold or normal weight?
  • Or am I misundertanding something about fonts?
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The Inkscape text toolbar only allows you to select the font family and size, and to toggle bold and italic type, but it doesn't include any way to select a specific font variant. This has actually been reported as a bug in Inkscape, and should be fixed in the next version (0.49).

In order to select a specific font variant in current versions of Inkscape, you need to open the Text and Font dialog, either via the Text menu or by pressing Shift+Ctrl+T. This will open a floating dialog window that looks like this:

Inkscape Text and Font dialog screenshot

Note that this dialog is currently not dockable, although that should also be fixed in Inkscape 0.49.

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Go to your fonts folder and manually remove it - then download a fresh version from Font Squirrel (links below as well as some other styles from the family - well worth grabbing.)

DejaVu Sans

DejaVu Sans Mono

DejaVu Serif

Then try installing these (close inkscape before you install just to be safe)

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  • Ironically, the website you link to does not contain the DejaVu Sans Condensed font... it can be downloaded from elsewhere though. Mar 26, 2013 at 9:46
  • yes it does its inside the the deja vu sans family
    – MephistonX
    Mar 26, 2013 at 12:14

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