fontforge software package provides font editor, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install fontforge
fontforge is installed in your system.
Make ensure the fontforge package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep fontforge *
You will get with fontforge package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | X Window System software |
| Package | fontforge |
| Version | 20120731.b-5 |
| Description | font editor |
| Sub Section | x11 |