This tool also allows you to delete an existing font. Alternative: Use Font Manager for managing fonts in Ubuntu and other LinuxĪlternatively, you can install Font Manager application and manage fonts using a GUI application.
These fonts will now be available for you. fonts directory that you have created in the previous step. fonts directoryĬopy your fonts files and paste those in the. fonts directory Step 2: Put fonts files in the. In Linux, if you put dot ahead of the file name, it hides the file from normal view. Right click to make a new folder and name it. Press Ctrl+H to show hidden files in Ubuntu. Go to your Home directory in File manager. And extract or copy paste all those TTF or OTF files in this directory. fonts directory, if it doesn’t exist already, in your Home directory. To install several fonts at once in Ubuntu, all you need to do is to create. Installing all these fonts, one by one, by double-clicking on them is cumbersome and inconvenient. Imagine you have 20 new fonts to install. This is an alternative to step 2 that I mentioned above. Tip: Ubuntu provides a package to install Microsoft TrueType fonts all at once. Once installed, you can see the newly installed fonts in any application that uses fonts such as GIMP, Pinta etc. No prizes for guessing that the font has been now installed. Couple of seconds later, you’ll see the status has been changed to “ Installed“. You won’t really see anything being installed as you see when installing a software. In here, you can see the option to install the font in the top-right corner: Install new font
It will open it in Font Viewer application. Whichever it may be, just double-click on the font file. Now go to this extracted folder and look for.
Extract the zip file in Linux by right-clicking and selecting extract. The downloaded fonts are usually in a zipped file.