Trying to copy the 'All Hallows Eve' textmate theme in kate, I got stuck with the Monaco font. After a little searching, I found a nice blog post which includes an instruction for adding the Monaco font to the system. Basically, get the font and run the following code to put it in the fonts directory: sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom sudo mv Monaco_Linux.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/cu