Fonts

Fonts can live in a couple of places on linux:

where

• /usr/share/fonts
:: global
• $HOME/.local/share/fonts :: user-local
• $HOME/.fonts :: I understand this to be deprecated

how

Some relevant shell commands:

 
 # output font files, with associated family names and styles 
 fc-list 
 fc-list | grep -i iosevka # search for iosevka fonts 
 # scans and rebuilds caches for applications using "fontconfig" 
 fc-cache 
 

Also peep the man-page:

 
 man fc-list 
 ... 
 SEE ALSO 
 fc-match(1) FcFontList(3) FcPatternFormat(3) 
 fc-cat(1) fc-cache(1) fc-pattern(1) fc-query(1) fc-scan(1)