installing fonts

**Rrory** · February 22nd, 2014

I'm just an author and I found a nice font over at Fontsquirrel which I downloaded but I don't know how to install it so I can use it on LibreOffice, can someone give me easy basic instructions please?
rory

ps I did search on how to install fonts but frankly I didn't understand, too complex for a basic user like me

**kostkon** · February 22nd, 2014

Double-click on it, press the Install Font button.

**Rrory** · February 22nd, 2014

it's a zip file with 13 fonts (sorry maybe I should have said) and when I left double click; it wants to open and extract with archive manager.

**23dornot23d** · February 22nd, 2014

Can you post a link to where you downloaded the file or to the zip file ............
Just so we can see what is inside of it ...........

Then we can give a step by step maybe - as one of us can do the install to see if any
problems arise.

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/li...d_fonts?filter[family_size]=1&filter[download]=all&sort=recent

I just tried with the finger paint one - double click the archive to open it.

Then double click on the font ............ a window should pop up and go to the top right click install

http://i.minus.com/ibuEwL9nZBIAdV.jpg

Then it should be available to all apps .............

**Rrory** · February 22nd, 2014

Here we go it's Alegreya from Font Squirrel
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/alegreya

I appreciate your help

**23dornot23d** · February 22nd, 2014

welcome and sorry my writing is not so good with the mouse ...........

But double click to open the archive

Then double click the text

Then press the install button that I have highlighted in red .......... that should do it
I think

Code:

This should not be needed - but just incase your installation is missing it for any reason .....

If the font viewer does not show up when double clicking it - then make sure it is installed
by opening a terminal and typing this line in ............ 

sudo apt-get install gnome-font-viewer

Then go into the application and choose the font to use ..........

**Rrory** · February 22nd, 2014

You are a star

the code was extremely helpful as my font viewer was not installed, once I did that, then I did just what those excellent screenshots showed and the fonts were easy to install.

Thank you so much for the help and patience. My book will look so great now & this is why I am such an Ubuntu fan.

Rory