Currently I´m using the academic theme which comes with academicicons, font awesome-webfont and glyphicons inside themes/academic/static/fonts. While these fonts are quite good, I want to try some others.
Am I right that the first step to change the font would be to place it in static/fonts so it overrides the theme fonts?
And then (I guess) some modification needs to be done in the css file?
I could not find a guide for this - so help is highly appreciated 
I have the same question. 
I have tried putting *ttf (truetype) font file in fonts folder and tried to create a link to it in main.css, but had no luck.
Any help?!
Perhaps this thread helps: Font selection in theme
Thanks Leo,
I have found a solution and want to share it here, so that might help others like me 
Since I wanted to change the font of the header (logo), I put the code which i got from the google fonts page after choosing the font I want into header.html file that is located under …\layouts\partials
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Pacifico' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
Then, opened main.css file and found the relevant css id (in my case it is names as “header”) and added the attribute below into it.
font-family: ‘Pacifico’, sans-serif;