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+# Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
+
+2022-09-20
+
+Installing custom fonts is a fairly streamlined feature on operating systems like MacOS and Windows. Linux, on the other hand, struggles to make this workflow *easy* for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get frustrated with using the default "Fonts" application managers shipped with most Linux distros.
+
+But I'm here to tell you to **ditch** those GUI font installers. Let's install our custom fonts in the command line!
+
+## Get Your Font Files
+
+You can't install custom fonts if you don't have any. For this tutorial we are going to assume that we are trying to install a typeface set named `LinuxFont`. We are going to assume that we have already downloaded and extracted a folder named `LinuxFont` into our `Downloads` directory.
+
+Inside this hypothetical folder is a collection of `OTF` (opentype) font files. This will be important information in a moment.
+
+## Terminal Time
+
+Now our goal is to simply copy this new typeface folder into our user font directory. Open Terminal and run the following from your `Downloads` directory:
+
+
+    sudo cp -r LinuxFont /usr/local/share/fonts/opentype/
+
+
+**Important**: If your font files are NOT opentype format, be sure to copy your files to the proper directory (truetype for TTF, etc.)
+
+Next we need to make sure we have full read and write privileges for this new folder:
+
+
+    sudo chmod -R 0777 /usr/local/share/fonts/opentype/LinuxFont
+
+
+The last thing we need to do is reload the font cache on our system:
+
+
+    sudo fc-cache -fv
+
+
+That's it! You should now have access to your custom typeface in all your applications system wide.