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A caption Installing Fonts on Windows XP optical actually has a heavier weight so that I. Where are fonts located? it doesn’t disap- pear in such a A. C:> Windows folder > Fonts folder small point size B. How to find the Fonts folder from the desktop 1. Double click on My Computer > Other Places > Switch to Classic view >Control Panel >Fonts 2. Start menu > My Computer > C: drive > Windows folder > Fonts folder 3. Start menu>Control Panel (switch to Classic View) > Fonts folder 4. Start menu > Control Panel (in Category View) > Appearances and Themes > See Also > Fonts folder Windows Mac II. About the Fonts folder A. This is where all fonts reside — system fonts, application fonts (installed from Office/Adobe CS4), and fonts you’ve installed B. View buttons: (Large Icons, List, Simi- larity, Details) 1. Large Icons: if you roll the mouse over a font, you see its name and font type (OpenType, PostScript, or TrueType) 2. List: displays a list of fonts/font type in a list view 3. Similarity: you select a font and Windows provides a list of fonts that are similar, not similar, and “sorta” similar based on the type style (ex: serif or sans serif) 4. Details: displays additional font information, including size and date modified. C. If you double click on a font, you see a preview of the font in a waterfall display which can be viewed and printed (one page per font) — a true fontaholic will have a printed preview book of all your favorite fonts for browsing. D. Can also view a font in Word, under the Format>font menu III. Installing/uninstalling fonts A. Make sure the fonts are compatible with the PC (no Mac PostScript or Mac TrueType fonts) B. If you’ve downloaded fonts, they’re apt to be zipped files — extract the fonts before preceding C. Manual copy to Fonts folder 1. Locate the font(s) you want to add to the Fonts folder 2. Copy /paste the fonts D. Using the Start menu > Control Panel 1. Locate the fonts folder (Classic View or Category View) 2. Choose the File..Install New Font menu Page 10 3. Locate the fonts you want to add (shift or ctrl will add multiple fonts) and install E. To uninstall a font, move it out of the folder but not in the trash — I suggest having a special fonts folder that has a backup copy of your fonts and serves as a master repository for deacti- vated fonts (and current fonts) F. I always quit applications before installing/removing fonts IV. What fonts are automatically installed in the Windows OS? A. Primarily TrueType fonts (Windows standard) B. Web resources: 1. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.aspx a. Lists system fonts for different versions of Windows b. Lists fonts that are installed with different applications (PC-oriented but useful for Mac users, also) 2. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/winxp.htm a. Provides information and history on different system/ ap- plication fonts up to Windows XP 3. http://www.kayskreations.net/fonts/fonttb.html a. Lists system fonts for different versions of Windows b. Note the comment that you don’t want to delete these fonts 4. http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/xpfonts.htm a. Formatted list of Windows XP fonts b. Arial: Helvetica imitation and considered to be the most popular font Since 1999, Mi- crosoft Office has shipped with a special Unicode version of Arial c. Courier: the original monospaced font d. Verdana: a font actually designed for the computer monitor and popular with web designers (second most common font with 94% install on Windows and 93% install on Mac) e. Tahoma: very close to Verdana with tighter letter spacing and greater Unicode cover- age, it is the default screen font used in Windows XP V. Clear type A. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx a. With Windows XP, ClearType delivers improved font display quality over traditional forms of font smoothing or anti-aliasing b. ClearType improves readability on color LCD displays with a digital interface, such as those in laptops and high-quality flat panel displays c. Windows Vista and XP users can use the ClearType Web tuner to tune their ClearType settings. Page 11 Installing Fonts on Windows Vista VI. Vista comes with 6 new fonts and Office 2007 has 4 additional fonts A. They are Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, Corbel, Nyala, Segoe UI, Segoe Print, and Segoe Script B. Microsoft created the Clear Type font collection C. The Vista fonts are designed for on-screen reading D. You can see the list of new fonts at . 1. http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=47&aid=78683 2. http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/new-vista-fonts-and-the-web 3. http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/a-comprehensive-look-at-the-new-microsoft-fonts/ VII. Installing fonts in Vista A. Start menu > Control Panel > Appearances and Personalization > Fonts B. In the Fonts window, right-click in the list of fonts and choose Install New Font C. Navigate to the desired font and select it (more fonts can be selected with shift+ctrl) D. Install the font(s) Installing Fonts in Windows 7 1. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/windows7.htm a. New fonts installed with Windows 7 2. http://www.prepressure.com/fonts/basics/windows-7-font-handling a. Describes how fonts are handled in Windows 7 3. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20081030/improvements-to-fonts-in-windows-7/ a. Information about installing fonts on Windows 7 4. Windows 7 includes a built-in ClearType tuner that can be found in the Control Panel under Appearance and Personalization 5. In Windows 7, you must right Click on a downloaded font and then Click on Properties.. Under General tab you`ll see a Unblock Button, Click on it (Ignore this step if there is no Unblock button. 6. To installing you can: a. Double Click on the Font and click on the Install button Page 12 b. Drag and drop the font into the Fonts Control Panel page location. NOTE: You can either navigate to C:\Windows\Fonts in Windows Explorer or open the Control Panel (All items View) and click on the Fonts icon to open the Fonts Control Panel page c. Double click on the downloaded font and click on Install. VIII. Why is this useful to know the installed fonts? 1. If your business used only Windows computers, you could send documents to anyone in your organization using these fonts and not lose your formatting 2. A web designer has limited control over what fonts are displayed in a web page — this list helps the designer choose common fonts that most everybody will have on their com- puter IX. Can you have too many fonts installed? A. Yes for the operating system, never for a fontaholic (3rd party font management utilities help) B. Some versions of Windows store installed TrueType font information in a Registry Key, which has a size limit C. Installation problems will probably occur with more than 1000 fonts — let’s be practical! Who wants to scroll through a font menu of so many fonts? D. Related article: http://desktoppub.about.com/od/fonttechnologies/f/toomanyfontswin.htm which also has a list of what fonts should not be deleted X. Printing Font Samples A. Windows makes it easy to print a page with information about the font, and a waterfall view of the print, using a sentence in various font sizes. B. Double click on a font in the C: drive >Windows>Fonts folder. On the top right is a button to push to print the font. Page 13 Windows Mac Installing Fonts in Macintosh I. More difficult system that Windows (which uses 1 folder!) A. Looks sequentially in a series of Fonts folders to find the font Yes, there are multiple Fonts folders in different locations B. Font Access Order Fonts Folder Example Current applications Fonts folder as: Fonts that are active exclusively for the Creative Suites programs CS3 and earlier (InDesign, Illustrator, and MacHD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/ Photoshop) and for Microsoft Office fonts (Word, Ex- Fonts cel, Access, PowerPoint) Applications/Microsoft Office 20XX/Office\ Fonts User/Library/Fonts If there are more than one user for the computer Mac HD/Library/Fonts For all users on the Macintosh Network/Library/Fonts For users in a shared network System/Library/Fonts This is where the system fonts reside. Do not delete these fonts Classic Mode OS9 The only fonts available to OS9 C. How many is too many? Apple recommends a limit of 700-1800 font families but also warns that too many fonts take up a lot of The fonts that are installed RAM (watch your system performance) by default with Office for http://desktoppub.about.com/od/fonttechnologies/f/toomany- Mac are also installed with fontsmac.htm Windows versions of Of- fice. So it’s a safe bet that II. Installing and Deactivating fonts when you choose from these fonts, other people will see A. To install a font, add it to the appropriate Fonts folder — to deac- the same fonts that you see. tivate remove it from the folder You can choose the following fonts with confidence: Arial, 1. As with Windows, it is a good idea to quit applications before Arial Black, Century Gothic, installing or deactivating a font. Comic Sans MS, Copperplate 2. If you’re not planning on using a 3rd party font management Gothic Bold, Copperplate program, I suggest having a folder of all the installed/unin- Gothic Light, Curlz MT, Ed- stalled fonts for backup purposes wardian Script ITC, Impact, Lucida Handwriting, Mono- 3.
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