Adding fonts to a Linux OS

  • Open a console
  • Go in your home folder
  • Create a .local/share/fonts folder if it doesn’t exist
  • Copy the font files in this location
    • you can extract the font from a mkv using this script
  • Update your font cache by executing on your console : $ fc-cache -fv
  • Done :-)
Updated on January 16, 2016.