Windows Vista comes with a huge array of fonts but if you are looking for some funny, funky fonts or your personal favorite then you have to install them.
So, how to Install New Fonts in Windows Vista?
Step 1: Go to Control Panel -> Appearance and Personalization -> Fonts
Step 2: You will be taken to the System’s fonts folder. Right click anywhere inside the folder and click add fonts. You will be given a pop-up box which will aid in installing new fonts.
Step 3: Using the Drop down menu at ‘Drives‘ and ‘Network‘, select the folder where you have kept the new font files.
Step 4: The font files may be in different formats like Type 1, True Type or Open Type.
Step 5: If the folder you have selected has any font files in these formats, it will be listed under ‘List of Fonts‘.
Step 6: You can preview each font style below be highlighting them. To install, just select the font files you want to install and click ‘Install‘.
Step 7: Make sure you have selected ‘Copy fonts to fonts folder‘, so that you can manage all the font files easily.
Good tip. Will definitely help.
it did not work because it says in the steps that a pop-up box containing fonts to install would be there but there wasn’t.
@claire, I guess you got upto the point where you are taken to System’s fonts folder. Right click anywhere inside the folder and click add fonts. You should be getting the same pop-up that I have shown in the image above. You should browse now to the folder where you have kept additional fonts or where you have just downloaded new fonts and follow the rest of the steps to install. Hope this helps and let me know…
My problem is that when I click on the Fonts icon in the control panel, I never get a pop-up box. It only opens the fonts folder & that’s it. I guess that’s why I’ve been so confused!
Any tips here would be mucho helpful!
@Heidi, I have explained about it in my previous comment, do read that.
hey whenever i get to the popup window i look in the folder in witch i downloaded a font to off the internet like c:\users\robert\downloads and there are never any fonts there . it shows up in the folder when im viewing the folder but not in the popup window!!
I had the same problem, but I realized that I needed to unzip the files before they would appear on the menu. Hope that is helpful! Good luck!
I’m with tocco - file on computer but doesnt’ show in the box so that I can pick it and install.
I am running Vista Ultimate, and I was curious as well about how to install new fonts for Movie Maker that came with it.
After searching Google and arriving Here, I had a thought, since after reading some of the article, it didn’t seem to match up….
I’d like you to try something, seeing as how this worked for Me;
Make sure your target font that you wish to install is not in a compressed file, (WinRAR, WinZip, etc.)
Simply Right-Click on the file(s) and select “Install” from the resulting menu.
It was as simple as that for me. (After the natural confirmations.)
Well it didnt work for me. I unzipped all the files and put them in a folder and when i opened the systems folder thing, it was nothing there all it said was no fonts found. I even tried to drag and drop the ttf file into the fonts folder and it jus would not show up…
o yea and when i pick the d drive it says d: Recovery and not d: Web Related
@Whitnee, D drive is where I have kept my downloaded fonts and thats why I have chosen the D drive which had a name ‘Web Related’…You should click the network button and browse to the folder where you have kept your downloaded font files and then it should work…
Can the fonts from Windows 98 or Windows XP be transferred to Windows Vista? I am particularly interested in the font named DIPLOMA in Windows 98. Thanks in advance for your help.
@Mike, Yeah you should be able to install them in Vista as long as they are in the following type ‘Type 1, True Type or Open Type’…Just follow the general installation procedures…
Hello,
I have installed many Type 1 Fonts in Vista, they are there, looks OK also in Registry, but they just doesn’t work in any aplication.
Any ideas ?!?
Many thanks, Jure
I want to install Dark Courier, which is not on the list of fonts. How do I go about it?
I have a publication that I transferred to Vista and several fonts are not supported by Vista…I have tried installing them a couple different ways and no matter what I do they come up unsupported. This publication is dependent on getting the ttf installed. Please help me make this work. Thank You.
Thanks i love Vista.
I have the same problem as Jure, the fonts are installed in the font folder but they do not appear in any of the applications so I can’t use them. Is there anything I can do?
Well, Vista definitelly sucks.
I didn’t have problems with Type 1 fonts in XP. Now I was communicating with Microsoft and they said the problem is with Adobe Type Manager. And finally they said, you should change all your fonts to Open Type.
Yes, great and forget about 15000 US$ or little more, which I have paid buying fonts over past years.
Do we really looks so stupid?!
Anyhow, I’ve got some tips and working on that and be back if the solution come out.
Mimi,
ttf is TrueType font and should work in Vista. How did you tried to install??
Anyone have a remed to this VISTA problem?
Stil cant find the font that I saved!