If you don't have a lot of fonts, then you can copy and delete your fonts from
/usr/share/fonts/type1
or
/usr/share/fonts/truetype

Within the File System fonts you will find all kinds of fonts. Be careful what you delete though. Other applications may need certain ones of those fonts for the various GUI. Indeed I am in admiration for the font set Ubuntu included with the original CD install. Recently, I opened a Japanese web site and the page displayed correctly because Ubuntu includes the Japanese fonts. Not that I can read Japanese, but it was the first time ever that I could see Japanese.

If you are familiar with Adobe Adobe Type Manager then the functionality of FontyPython should be familiar to you. With Fonty, you create a set -- much like a folder but only visible to within Fonty when it is running. FontyPython calls these sets a "pog". To use Fonty you create a pog, give it name meaningful to you and add fonts. After the pog is created, the fonts within can be turned on as a set making the fonts show up in a font menu. This offers a great advantage. Users of graphical or wordprocessing software with the addition of FontyPython won't have a font menu list that scrolls forever. Instead, the fonts become manageable as needed for all the different projects you work on.

With FontyPython we can store the extra fonts anywhere on the hard drive. In my case, I have a folder called font_morgue and it's located at the user/home level. (I named the folder font_morgue because I come from a newspaper make-ready background. Name your folder anything you like -- font-library or myFonts). Within my font_morgue are all kinds of fonts organized by folders. Some folders by the manufacturer, some by the customer, some by the seasons such as Christmas fonts.

How to get FontyPython

FontyPython is free but it is not in the Ubuntu Synaptic Repositories. You will have to download it from
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython

Read the README included with the download. There is useful information for Ubuntu users and how to go about installation.

The limitation for version 0.2 is Fonty only works with TrueType fonts. (See the article on FontForge to convert fonts to TrueType format).

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Now, as of the Gutsy Gibbon Release of Ubuntu, FontyPython is in the Synaptic Repositories.


Running FontyPython

FontyPython runs from a Terminal. To run you type ~$ fp




Fonty now runs in the GUI mode as the default. For other options you would type in the terminal fp --help to get a list of options and other running modes.

In the screenshot showing fonty I have created a "pog" named ASchweitzer_set, then I navigated to my font_morgue folder and with the pog selected I could add fonts to the pog. Default is the newly edited pog is NOT turned on. Notice in the screenshot above the button next to the pog for ASchweitzer_set is set black. To activate, I will click on that little square button and then the larger, rectangular button beneath that pog I click it to make the pog "alive", which turns the pog button red. The fonts are now available for font menus across my system. I can close FontyPython.

Let's say I'm using XaraLX, a vector graphics program, because I have the pog activated, the two fonts are included in the font menu. If I wish to add more fonts to my work in progress, I have to quit XaraLX, fire up fontyPython, add the needed fonts to my pog (or create a new pog), make sure the pog is active and then resume my project.