You can install an extra font which will be available to users in applications that use fontconfig for font handling.
Copy the font to the /usr/local/share/fonts/ directory to install it.
You may need to run the following command to update the font cache:
$ fc-cache /usr/local/share/fonts/
You may need to restart running applications to see the changes. User sessions do not need to be restarted.
Alternatively, you can also install fonts in another system directory than /usr/local/share/fonts/ if that directory is listed in the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file. If it is not, then you need to create your own machine-wide configuration file in /etc/fonts/local.conf containing the directory you want to use. See the fonts-conf(5) man page for more information.
If you are using an alternative directory, remember to specify the directory name when updating the font cache with the fc-cache command:
$ fc-cache directory_name
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