You usually need Administrator or Root privileges to add fonts to the system-wide folders.
In Finder, hold the Option key and click Go > Library , then open the Fonts folder. Linux Distributions fonts folder location
| Scope | Typical Path | |-------|---------------| | System (X11 legacy) | /usr/share/fonts | | System (alternative) | /usr/local/share/fonts | | User | ~/.local/share/fonts or ~/.fonts (deprecated) | | System-wide config | /etc/fonts/fonts.conf | You usually need Administrator or Root privileges to