Fonts

get fonts

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 sub-directory in there...

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

if you dont want to copy your files to the system-path
simply use:

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

list fonts

to list installed fonts:

fc-list

update font cache

if new files in place are not listed by fc-list
simply update the fonts-cache

fc-cache -fv