Adding new fonts to Libre Office isupposed to be easy... but it's not (for me)!

Okay, I’m running Ubuntu and Libre Office. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the software, rebooted my computer, shut it down, restarted… and nothing seems to be working. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

I wanted to download a “Western” themed font for a project that I could use in LibreOffice 26.2 Writer. I went to Google Fonts and found 4 or 5 that I like and downloaded them. After extracting them, I opened them by double clicking on the .ttf file and the fonts tool popped up. I then clicked on Install and it seemed to work just fine. I restarted libre office… and nope. I rebooted, same.

I opened the terminal and ran “fc-cache -f -v” and it looked like it did something… but still, the western font doesn’t show up in Libre Office.

I’ve read the articles like this one (https://www.libreofficehelp.com/install-fonts-libreoffice-openoffice/) that say it’s easy. I must be doing something wrong.

…just enough knowledge to really be dangerous,

-Clinton