How to install a font under
Windows?
Unzip the files you have downloaded.
Details :
Click on the "Download" button, save the zip somewhere on your hard
disk, go to the place where it is saved, double-click on the zip to open
it, then either click on "Extract all files" or drag and drop the files
elsewhere from the zip window (hold down the CTRL key to select several
files at once)
For the 20th century versions of Windows you must install an unzip tool
first.
Under Windows
Vista :
Select the
font files (.ttf, .otf or .fon) then Right-click > Install
Under any
version of Windows :
Place the font
files (.ttf, .otf or .fon) into the Fonts folder, usually
C:\Windows\Fonts or C:\WINNT\Fonts
(can be reached as well by the Start Menu > Control Panel > Appearance
and Themes > Fonts).
Note that with the internal unzip tool of
Windows (unlike WinZip), you cannot install a font by a simple drag and
drop of the .ttf from the zip window to the Fonts window. You must first
drag and drop it anywhere (for example on the desktop) then in the Fonts
folder.
You can also go through : File > Install a new font... in the Fonts
folder menu then browse the fonts, instead of drag and drop the fonts
into the window. Although this method is laborious, it would seem that
it functions better in certain cases.
Tip : if you punctually need a font, you
don't need to install it. Just double-click on the .ttf file, and while
the preview window is opened you can use it in most of the programs
you'll launch (apart from a few exceptions like Open Office).
How to use a new font with a
software?
It is
sometimes necessary to re-launch the current application to be able to
use the new font.
Then you may proceed as usual, the font will appear in your software's
font combo-box (word processing, drawing etc.).
How to use for a web site?
If you specify
a particular font in your web pages which is not installed on the
visitor's machine, it will be replaced by the default font in his
browser, Usually Times New Roman.
Of course, you can specify several fonts in the CSS by priority order,
but nothing is guaranteed.
The 3 main
solutions :
-
to realize
a title with a particular font, the easiest method is to make an
image. Use a drawing program and save the image as .gif (or .jpg if
there are too many shades of colour, or .png).
-
for a long
text and only under IE, you can embed the fonts so visitors will
download them at the same time as the pages. Details.
-
generate
an image with PHP
Why the fonts don't show up
in e-mails / instant messengers?
Your correspondent can only view the fonts installed on
his computer. Better avoid to send a email or an instant message (MSN
Messenger, etc.) with a non-standard font ; or then make sure your
correspondent has installed it too, otherwise he will see a default
font.
How many fonts can be
installed?
Windows is supposed to be able to manage about 1000
fonts. But avoid to install too many fonts at one time because that
slows down the system. A lot of programs have to load to memory all
installed fonts to be able to run.
So it is better to put fonts you use regularly in the Fonts folder. Keep
the rest in any other folder or storage device, so you can
install/uninstall them as needed.
Why aren't stressed
characters or numbers included?
The present fonts on this site are freewares or
sharewares, sometimes demos, which don't systematically include stressed
letters, figures or certain punctuation chars. Some even work only in
lower-case or upper-case letters.
You may check this here by clicking on the fonts to show the characters
map.
Nothing is working !
Re-launch the target application after the new font's
installation.
Make sure to have copied the .ttf file, and not the zip into the Fonts
folder.
In the worst of the cases, reboot your computer.
Are all fonts free of
charge?
The fonts presented on this website are their authors'
property, and are either freeware, shareware, demo versions or public
domain. Please look at the readme-files in the zips or check the
indicated author's website for details, and contact him if in doubt. If
no author/licence is indicated that's because we don't have information,
that doesn't mean it's free.
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