Fonts, sometimes called typestyles are used to change the way a character looks on the page in your documents or web pages etc.
Installing fonts in Windows is quite simple. There are a couple of ways to do it. We will go over the “proper” way and the quick way to install new fonts.
To install fonts you need to go to your Control Panel and double click the fonts icon. This will bring up a window with the fonts you already have installed. To install a new font you need to go to File, then Install New Font.
Then you will need to browse to the location that contains the fonts you wish to install.
From here you can pick the individual fonts you want to install or click on Select All to install all the fonts in that directory. If the font is already installed on your computer you will get a message telling you so.
The easy method
If you don’t want to go through this process you can simply copy all the font files you wish to add and then paste them into your Fonts folder. This folder is usually located in the C:\Windows\Fonts directory.
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