Tuesday, September 13, 2011

how to download & install fonts (in windows)

Arianna requested this tutorial, and to be honest, before I really started blog designing I had a ton of trouble with downloading fonts. Mostly because our internet was terrible, and I just didn't have a good tutorial to use.

First, find a font that you want to download & download it. Dafont.com and fonsty.com have some good fonts.



Once you have that downloaded, go to your documents and click on downloads. Find the font that you downloaded.


Now, double click on the file & open it. On the top left hand side you should see a link that says "extract all files".


Click on that. A small window should pop up. Click on next, then it should bring you to the another screen on the page. Click browse>my computer> (the name/brand of your computer, mine is acer) acer> windows> fonts. Click on fonts and click OK. You might have to do a bit of scrolling and searching, but make sure the file does end up in the fonts file. The fonts file was at the bottom of mine.


There are some easier ways to do this, like just click on the download on you internet browser instead of going to documents, and you can just copy and paste the url to the fonts if you want to download more than one. I figured I'd leave it how it is though, I figured out how to do those little easy tricks by myself, so it shouldn't be that hard to figure out.


Once you're done with that, finish, and you should have a new font! Wasn't too hard, right? It might take a bit to install your font, like you may have to re-start your computer before it shows up, but it should be there.

Let me know if you have any questions by leaving a comment. 

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