I’ve haven’t written recently because I was completely bogged down finishing up my Bachelors degree and applying to grad schools, but here’s a quick tip for those of you looking for a painless way to install third party TrueType fonts in Fedora. This may work in other Linux distros, but Fedora is my distro of choice so that’s why it’s used here.

If you need to install fonts accessible to all users on the system, you have to do some more complicated voodoo. I hate voodoo, so I’m not going to cover that.

If all you need is to install a font for your own user, it’s just this simple:

Put your myfont.ttf file in your home directory, under directory called /.fonts/. So in other words, your font lives at:

/home/youruser/.fonts/myfont.ttf

Create the directory if it doesn’t already exist. Finally, restart any application you want to use that font in, and you should see it show up. You’re good to go.