Sudo apt install fonts-kacst fonts-kacst-one \ Sudo apt purge fonts-kacst fonts-kacst-one \įonts-lohit-guru fonts-guru fonts-nanum \įonts-lao fonts-sil-padauk fonts-sil-abyssinica \ Copy and paste this into a terminal and hit Enter to remove the fonts. The following command contains probably all of them (Ubuntu 16.04). To remove these fonts you need to know in what packages are they located. You can see in the screenshot below how it looks before and after removing the unneeded fonts. And now, my font selection box (in LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape, etc.) is filled with latin only fonts that I can use. I managed to free about 100 MB by removing these fonts. The list below is tested on Ubuntu 16.04. for the language choosing settings or for displaying some web pages) but as a latin alphabet user I don't need them and I didn't like the fact that they were cluttering my font selection dialog without being of any use to me. I don't know whether these fonts are ever needed by the operating system (i.e. But no matter what locale and/or installation language you choose, Ubuntu will install by default some non-latin fonts for Japanese, Thai, Ethiopian, Myanmar, Lao, Tibetan, Korean, Punjabi, Sinhala, Arabic and Khmer languages. Many of the latin have good support for Extended character sets. The default Ubuntu installation comes with a lot of fonts. How to uninstall non-Latin alphabet fonts on Ubuntu and unclutter the font list box in all applications
