I used the find duplicated feature on the KDE font management app. It listed out some 32 duplicate fonts and I selected them all and chose delete WITHIN the app. Note that I did not touch the files myself. If someone can confirm whether these files actually get deleted or just go to somewhere in trash, it would be great.
The problem is, I soon noticed a few files are missing from the font I just downloaded a few minutes ago, I re-downloaded that font and then noticed it listing on two clearly different fonts as duplicates. Here’s some pictures.
Here is an example of the fonts concerned:
-
IA Writer Quattro V, Regular
~/.fonts/iA Writer Quattro/Variable/iAWriterQuattroV.ttf
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IA Writer Quattro V, Italic
~/.fonts/iA Writer Quattro/Variable/iAWriterQuattroV-Italic.ttf
Clearly, the italics font is different from the regular font ?
Now either italics fonts can be inferred from the regular file and you dont need an italics file separately.
In any case, I feel like all those other fonts it called “duplicates” were all important things.
How can I restore them ? I didn’t have a lot of custom fonts, does anyone have the default font repositories for me to just restore ? I didn’t have a restore point either.
It’s so stupid, the help manual clearly states that the duplicates feature mainly deals with exactly the same font under different file names. These are two different fonts ?
Looking closely at the KDE Font Manager, there seems to be no way to delete a font unless you specifically mark it for deletion (using an 
in the delete column).
The results do show some fonts of the same font family, for example, I have;
- Droid Sans, Bold
/usr/share/fonts/droid/DroidSans-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/droid/DroidSansEthiopic-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/droid/DroidSansTamil-Bold.ttf
At face value, only the files that have been selected for deletion can be deleted. It’s possible you deleted both members of your font family by mistake.
Or, more precisely, without thinking – the actual font files are listed with their paths – they are displayed so that you can choose which to delete, and which to keep.
In hindsight, selecting them all for deletion was probably not the wisest approach. However, I agree that the dialog could likely be a little clearer.
You might like to ask at KDE Discuss.
Custom fonts cannot be restored unless you have a backup system of some kind set up. A restore point is Windows terminology, but, something similar can also be achieved in Linux; however, that won’t help your immediate problem.
As they are all user-installed fonts you will need to reinstall all that you have deleted. This means searching the repositories, or downloading again manually.
Regards.
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Where did you get them?
Sounds like you don’t have the archive anymore and don’t know where to get them again from.
Based on the name I found it here:
GitHub - iaolo/iA-Fonts: Free variable writing fonts from iA
download the archive and unzip - the file is called master.zip:
https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
I put the individual directories into ~/.fonts
the font manager found them and also found duplicates, but no option to delete (grayed out).
That is all I “know”.
I know next to nothing about fonts.
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This one seems to have been resolved via the unofficial subreddit: I think font management screwed up all my fonts : r/ManjaroLinux:
Plan_9_fromouter_
• 22h ago
I would start with
sudo pacman -S $(pacman -Qqes font)
HotLingonberry27
• 22h ago
That seems to have worked ! Maybe somewhere down the line I would see some weird fallback fonts being used, but it should be alright for now. Thanks !
And it seems HotDingleberry27 didn’t bother to return to tell us, when finding their solution two hours after posting here.
I shan’t even mention the cross-posting. Oh, oops!
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