No amount of emphasis can be placed on fonts. Mastering the process of installing fonts in Windows 10 or Windows 11 is essential for achieving professional-looking documents created in Word, Photoshop, or InDesign. If you follow this guide, you should have no trouble doing it.
There are two main ways to add fonts to Windows. Our first method is the one that most people should use. We have instructions on how to install fonts and how to remove fonts you don’t want. We also list our best websites to download new fonts.
This article is about Windows 11 and 10, which will use the same fonts in all of your programs. Read our guides on how to install fonts on a Mac and how to install fonts in Photoshop if you want a better way to do it.
Guidelines for setting up fonts in Windows 11 and Windows 10.
There is an easy way that works best to add fonts to Windows 10 and 11. All you have to do is get a font, pick it out, and drag it to the Windows font screen. You’ll have a new font in a few seconds without having to restart your computer or download any software.
We used Windows 11 to take photos, but Windows 10 users can do the same thing. The Windows Key + S key combination can help you find the right place if you get lost.
Step 1: Start by getting the style you want to use. Fonts usually come in folders that are zipped together. You can extract the folder to your desktop or another easy-to-reach spot on your PC. To do this, go to the top of the File Explorer window and click on Extract All.
Step 2: Open the Windows Settings menu and choose Personalization from the list on the left. Pick Fonts from the list of choices.
Step 3: Look for the place where you extracted the fonts. Drag the TrueType font (.ttf) files from the folder to the rectangular area with dots in the Windows Settings window.
The Microsoft Store font installation process
You can also use the Microsoft Store to add fonts. But there are only so many choices in the Microsoft Store. The process is easy. You can get most of the fonts for free, but some packs cost money. At the time this was written, we saw some packs for around $5 and some fonts for around $2.
Because there are few fonts to choose from, and some of them cost money, there are better ways to add fonts. We suggest that you use the above drag-and-drop method instead. We’ll still show you how to use the Microsoft Store to get fonts.
Step 1: To access Windows’s personalization options, open the Settings menu and navigate to the left-hand list. Next, select Fonts from the drop-down menu.
Step 2: To open the font store, click Get More Fonts in the Microsoft Store. Pick out the font you want to use, then click “Get.”
How to delete fonts in Windows
You can get rid of any font in Windows 10 or 11, even the ones that come from Microsoft, if you want to clean up your font choices. Once again, we shot the images with Windows 11, but the procedure is identical in both versions.
Step 1: Go ahead and open the Windows Settings app. Find the “Personalization” menu item and select it. Select Fonts thereafter.
Step 2: Click the font you want to get rid of once more. Select Uninstall from the list of Metadata.
Where to find Windows fonts
For fonts, go to the Microsoft Store. If you want to find more, you’ll have to go online. There are a lot of websites that offer free fonts, but some are better than others. These are the few Windows font sources that we use often.
Google Fonts is the best place to start if you want free fonts. You don’t have to worry about getting something you didn’t ask for when you use Google to find thousands of free fonts. Google also makes the rights clear, which is only sometimes the case in other places.
Check out Creative Market if you want to buy fonts. Packs made by the community are easy to find and generally only cost a few dollars. Behance is also a good option, but it’s designed to work with Adobe programs.
Check out the font’s license before you install it. You can get a lot of fonts for free, but not all of them are free to use. It’s best to be sure because some fonts are free for personal use but not for business use.