I have always been a bit of a font addict and love finding new fonts to play around with. Recently I shared with you a few of my favorite FREE fonts and received some questions regarding how to install a font onto a computer. Free fonts are certainly not as fun when you don’t yet know how to install them! So today I’m going to share a step-by-step tutorial on how to install fonts on a Mac OSX. If you are a PC-girl (or guy), don’t worry because I’ve got you covered too! Hop on over to The Shabby Creek Cottage and Gina will take you through the steps of installing a new font on your PC. Once you see how simple it is to install new fonts, you might just turn into a font addict too!
Download Free Fonts. Collection of most popular free to download fonts for Windows and Mac. This free fonts collection also offers useful content and a huge collection of TrueType face and OpenType font families categorized in alphabetical order. Dec 02, 2020 Open Font Book. Select File and choose Add Fonts in the drop-down menu. Navigate to the font you downloaded and click it to add it to Font Book. Select the font in Font Book to see a preview. Jul 03, 2020 Follow these next steps to easily add the font to Microsoft Word. In your file manager, click on the.zip file of your downloaded font. At the top right, click on Extract All. Choose the location you want the extracted file to be saved to. In a Mac, double-click the font file (whether Truetype, Opentype or PostScript) and you’ll see a preview window. Click the ‘Install Font’ button in this window, and you’re done. (This copies it to the Fonts folder in your personal home Library folder. On Windows: Close Illustrator if it's open. You won't be able to find your newly installed fonts in.
I should also point out that this process takes much longer to write about and outline in a step-by-step post than it does to implement in real life. You can install a bunch of fonts in a minute or two once you know how!
Step 1: Google search the term “free fonts” to find a font site that contains fonts you would like to download to your computer.Please note: Take caution when downloading items to your computer. Some sites may not be safe so download at your own risk. In the screenshot below you can see that I have pulled up some fonts on the site fontsquirrel.com. To begin downloading the font I click on “Download TTF” or “Download OTF”. All font files will be a .ttf or .otf file. For the purpose of this example, I have downloaded the “UglyQua” font.
Step: 2 After you install your font you will see it located in your downloads file as a zip file. Double click on the zip file to open it.
Step 3: Once you double click on your downloaded font zip file your Downloads folder will automatically open (beneath your browser–so minimize your internet screen to see it). Click on the font file folder to open it.
How To Manually Install Fonts On Your Mac
Step 4: Once you open the font file folder you will see the license for the font in a text (.txt) document and then the actual font(s) as the .ttf or .otf files. Click on the font file (.ttf or .otf) to open the font in the Font Book.
Step 5: The font is now open and ready to be installed. Click on “Install Font”. Note that some fonts don’t convert to Mac and an error screen will pop up warning you that the font has errors before you install.
Step 6: The font will show up in your Font Book. Congratulations! You installed your font!
And that is all there is to it! Your Mac will do most of the work for you and all you have to do is simply know which words to click on. If you follow these steps (and are on a Mac OSX then you shouldn’t have any problems. To get you going with your new-found superpower, I recommend looking for free fonts at dafont.com, urbanfonts.com, and fontsquirrel.com. Enjoy!