How to install many font files quickly and easily?
Just create a .fonts
folder in your home directory (if it doesn't exist) and unpack/copy them there.
It's also a good idea to manually rebuild the font cache, so you can immediately use the fonts everywhere:
fc-cache -f -v
For more details see also https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts
Font Manager
Can manage multiple fonts easily with this application.
Can install mutiple fonts at a once.
To install new fonts click on "Manage Fonts" button as on the picture and click on "Install Fonts" in menu.
Can be installed with Software Center or with this command;
sudo apt-get install font-manager
Let's say your downloaded fonts are in fonts
directory in your Downloads folder, Do these to install them
If you want the fonts to be usable by all users
Copy in /usr/share/fonts
with command line
sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/fonts /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
Alternatively, Type this command in terminal to open graphical file manager if you prefer that way
sudo -i nautilus /usr/share/fonts/truetype
and copy the fonts from the downloaded directory to the newly opened folder in nautilus
If you don't bother for all users
In this case, the recommended way is to copy the fonts in ~/.local/share/fonts
directory (It is not recommended to create .font
directory directly under home anymore). When you put the fonts in that specified directory, Ubuntu will automatically start caching process. After 5-6 seconds, the fonts should appear in listing. Close any open application before you want to change the font for it.
Fixing the font files' permission bit
Font files should have the permission of 644
and the containing folder should have 755
. So if you see don't see the fonts in listing, please check the permissions of those files and folders.
See this question as a help to determine the permission How can I get octal file permissions from command line?
Check this answer to get help on setting permissions easily How to chmod all folders except files (recursively)