 How
to install a font under Windows?
How to install a font under Mac OS?
How to install a font under Linux?
How to use a new font with a software?
How
to use for a web site?
Why
the fonts don't show up in e-mails / instant messengers?
How
many fonts can be installed?
Why
aren't stressed characters or numbers included?
Nothing
is working!
Are
all fonts free of charge?
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 "Extraxt 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.
There are some videos on
YouTube if that helps.
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
OpenOffice).
How to install a font under Mac OS? Mac OS X recognizes TrueType and OpenType fonts (.ttf and
.otf) but not the PC bitmap fonts (.fon).
Files are compressed, you may need an utility like
Stuffit Expander.
- Under Mac OS X 10.3 or above (including
the FontBook) :
Double-click the font file > "Install font" button
at the bottom of the preview.
- Under any version of Mac OS X :
Put the files into /Library/Fonts (for all
users),
or into /Users/Your_username/Library/Fonts
(for you only).
- Under Mac OS 9 or earlier :
The old Mac fonts are not supported anymore at
refont. First, you have to
convert the font files (.ttf or .otf) you have
downloaded.
Then drag the fonts suitcases into the System
folder. The system will propose you to add them to
the Fonts folder.
How to install a font under Linux? Copy the font files (.ttf or .otf) to
fonts:// in the File manager,
or:
Go into the /home folder, in the menu select View > Show
Hidden Files, you will see the hidden folder .fonts
(if not, create it) then copy the font files there.
How to use a new font with a software? It is sometimes necessary to relaunch 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 4 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
- for a long text under any browser, you can use
this script
- generate an image with
PHP
Why the fonts don't show up in e-mails / instant
messengers? Your correspondant 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 correspondant 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.
Relaunch 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. The licence mentioned above the download
button is just an indication. Please look at the
readme-files in the zips or check the indicated author's
website for details, and contact him/her 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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