Thursday, March 3, 2011

Installing a Font

From: http://jonesdesigncompany.com/create/fonts

What good is a downloaded font if you don’t know how to install it? So here is a quick tutorial on how to add a font. Keep in mind I am working on a PC, so there may be variations on a mac {if this tutorial doesn’t work for your set-up, I’m sure there are others you could find by googling ‘installing a font’}.

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Select the font you wish to download and click the download button.

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Click OK to open with the default program.shot 4

It will automatically pop up. Now you need to export the file {extract}, so click on that button.

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You can decide where you want the font to open up {I chose my desktop} then click ok.

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When I go to my desktop, there it is.

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Now open up your control panel, and then your font folder.

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Now drag and drop the new font into the font folder.

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Now you can use the font. I opened up a word document, selected the font tab and found my new font in the list.

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