Install a font in Windows XP
- Installation
- File types of fonts
- Font styles
- International character sets
- Reference options for fonts
For more experienced computer users, this is of course long gone, but everyone started at some point. So hopefully understandable instructions for our "newbies":
1. Installation
First in the control panel the Fonts Open (Start menu -> Control Panel -> Appearance and Themes -> "See also:" Fonts)
There then in the menu File Select "Install Fonts".
Access to Windows font management
From drives and Folder list select the location of the new font. This can be a font CD, a file can also be obtained from another PC in the network (LAN), or a single font has been downloaded from the Internet, for example onto the desktop or into another directory. Above all, designers offer their creations for sale on the Internet for a fee; there are also collections of license-free fonts that are available free of charge, sometimes only for private use. The latter, however, are often - but not always - of inferior quality or are flawed. Please pay attention to the applicable copyrights when purchasing and passing on.
The Windows font folder
After you have selected the correct folder, Windows searches it for fonts and creates an overview of all the fonts found, ie the fonts contained in this folder. Caution: On slower computers and with large directories, creating this list can take up to a few minutes. The progress is shown in percent.
The control panel Copy the fonts to the "Fonts" folder should be checked so that the fonts don't fly around all over the computer afterwards ...
Add Fonts Dialog
With the mouse you can select the desired fonts from the font list. By pressing the Ctrl (or. Ctrl) Key or the shift key, several fonts can be selected for installation, alternatively one can press the button "Select all".
Finally click on "OK", the fonts will be installed and are now available in all Windows applications.
One final note: Font management requires considerable system resources that are then not available for other purposes. It is therefore a good idea to only have installed fonts that you use regularly. All other (außer the system fonts, including Arial, TimesNewRoman, System and most raster fonts) can be deleted from the font folder after use. If you want to use the fonts to be deleted again later, you should keep a copy of the corresponding files in a different location so that you can reinstall them according to this recipe if necessary. We have explained details about removing fonts under Windows here: http://www.win-tipps-tweaks.de/forum...entfernen.html
2. File types of fonts
Truetype font files for Windows are at their extension . Ttf They are also shown with the "TT" or "O" icon. (Windows also supports a few other font file formats: .pfm for PostScript Type1 fonts, .otf for OpenType fonts. It also knows various non-printable raster fonts.)
3. Font styles
Another tip: high quality font files are usually in at least four different ones Font styles before:
"normal", "fat", "italic", "bold + italic" or "regular", "bold", "italic", "bold + italic"
Often there are others such as black, ultra-black, left-italic ...
Windows uses the definitions from the four basic font styles provided that all four variants are installed. If only the normal font is installed, Windows will calculate the remaining fonts, which leads to considerably poorer results. Because a real italic character set of a font has almost nothing in common with the "twisted" normal font that Windows provides. Here once using the example of the well-known TimesNewRoman. Note the completely different shapes of the letters, most noticeable with the "a":
First of all, the form "accentuated" by Windows, if only a single ttf file of the font is available:
And here is the comparison of how it must look correctly if the corresponding font styles and italics are from Times the system contains:
Windows-reinforced and -thickened font
It looks quite different right away. So if you seriously want to do something with writing, you should find out more about this point.
Real italic and bold type
Further information on the subject of fonts is available from: TypeForum, a German-speaking portal for type enthusiasts and designers.
In particular, the very detailed descriptions in the sub-sections as well as the "Typo-Lexicon" are worth a special recommendation.
4. International character sets
In the meantime, international fonts have also found their way into the Windows world. Unicode has been supported since WindowsNT, but only recently has there been an increasing number of application programs (word processing) that can handle it.
We have described here where to find the correct Unicde digit sequence for certain exotic characters: All the signs in the world
"Exotic fonts" as TTF can usually be found free of charge at
Unicode fonts for Windows computers
With the Windows character table, all characters of a font can be displayed and copied to the clipboard. In this way, special characters that are not assigned a key on the keyboard can also be easily inserted into applications without a special special character function without knowing their numeric code.
The screen keyboard, which we have explained using the Cyrillic alphabet as an example, is suitable for creating entire texts in a foreign character set: Workshop Cyrillic Character Set
The Windows character map
5. Obtaining options for fonts
If you are still looking for the right font, you can use a integrated font search find with preview. Both paid and free offers are listed.
If you are looking for a specific font but do not know it by name, you can go to WhatTheFont upload a picture of it for automatic analysis. This can be, for example, a scanned sample or an excerpt from a screenshot. The most appropriate comparison fonts are displayed and of course also offered for sale. If you do not find what you are looking for, the advice of a font expert can be obtained in the attached forum. However, the official language there is English.
After naming a few sources for font packages available for free and under a free license ( Fonts "fed up" ), here is another link to interesting TTF downloads:
Creamundo free fonts, free typography
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