Fonts

• Sources
• Install TTF fonts
• Update fonts cache
• List fonts available

How to manage fonts on Linux systems

Sources

you can find some really cool fonts @google-webfonts…
mostly licensed under OFL.

you can find Symbola-ttf here: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Symbola.ttf

which enables some nice unicodes like that: 💩
HEX-Escape:

💩

Install TTF fonts

To install ttf-fonts simply copy the TTF-files to

/usr/share/fonts/

Or a subdirectory in it

/usr/share/fonts/YOUR-FONT-DIR/

If you want to keep your system directory clean

/usr/local/share/fonts/YOUR-FONT-DIR/

Update fonts cache

$ fc-cache -fv

List fonts available

$ fc-list