Just downloaded a new font and you are unable to find it in your application that you wish to use them? Fonts have to be installed to your operating system properly in order for them to be added to your application.
- Download the font that you wish to install. The fonts are usually of .ttf format.
- Click “Start” in Windows task bar, and then choose “Run”.
- Type “%windir%\fonts” in the Run window, and then click OK. [You can also choose the folder “fonts” inside “Windows” folder.
- On the File menu, select Install New Font.
- In the location box, choose the location where your font exists
- Click the font you want to add. To select more than one font at a time, press and hold down the CTRL key and simultaneously select each font.
- Click to select the ‘Copy Fonts To Fonts Folder” check box. The “Windows\Fonts” folder is the default fonts folder for Windows.
- Click OK.
How to Delete or Remove Fonts
Similar way listed above, go to the fonts folder.
Select the fonts you wish to remove. Click Delete. You would get a notification requesting if you wish to proceed with the removal. Click Yes and the fonts are now deleted.
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